New American Standard Bible 1995

1 Corinthians 4:16-21

16Therefore I exhort you, be 1imitators of me.

17For this reason I 2have sent to you 3Timothy, who is my 4beloved and faithful child in the Lord, and he will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, 5just as I teach everywhere in every church.

18Now some have become 6 7arrogant, as though I were not 8coming to you.

19But I 9will come to you soon, 10if the Lord wills, and I shall find out, not the 11words of those who are 12arrogant but their power.

20For the kingdom of God does 13not consist in 14words but in power.

21What do you desire? 15Shall I come to you with a rod, or with love and a spirit of gentleness?

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Notes

1. 1 Corinthians 4:16 1 Cor 11:1; Phil 3:17; 4:9; 1 Thess 1:6; 2 Thess 3:9 ↩
2. 1 Corinthians 4:17 1 Cor 16:10 ↩
3. 1 Corinthians 4:17 Acts 16:1 ↩
4. 1 Corinthians 4:17 1 Cor 4:14; 1 Tim 1:2, 18; 2 Tim 1:2 ↩
5. 1 Corinthians 4:17 1 Cor 7:17; 14:33; 16:1; Titus 1:5 ↩
6. 1 Corinthians 4:18 Lit puffed up ↩
7. 1 Corinthians 4:18 1 Cor 4:6 ↩
8. 1 Corinthians 4:18 1 Cor 4:21 ↩
9. 1 Corinthians 4:19 Acts 19:21; 20:2; 1 Cor 11:34; 16:5f; 16:7-9; 2 Cor 1:15f ↩
10. 1 Corinthians 4:19 Acts 18:21 ↩
11. 1 Corinthians 4:19 Lit word ↩
12. 1 Corinthians 4:19 1 Cor 4:6 ↩
13. 1 Corinthians 4:20 1 Cor 2:4 ↩
14. 1 Corinthians 4:20 Lit word ↩
15. 1 Corinthians 4:21 2 Cor 1:23; 2:1, 3; 12:20; 13:2, 10 ↩

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