1 Corinthians 4:14-21
Paul’s Fatherly Warning
14 I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn [you].
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15 For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet [have ye] not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
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16 Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.
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17 For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.
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18 Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.
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19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power.
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20 For the kingdom of God [is] not in word, but in power.
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21 What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and [in] the spirit of meekness?
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