1 Corinthians 4:16

14I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

15For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you don’t have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.

16I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.

17Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

18Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.