¹⁸ Some of you have become arrogant,^(A) as if I were not coming to you.^(B)

² And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have gone into mourning^(A) and have put out of your fellowship^(B) the man who has been doing this?

⁶ Now, brothers and sisters, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us the meaning of the saying, “Do not go beyond what is written.”^(A) Then you will not be puffed up in being a follower of one of us over against the other.^{(B) 7} For who makes you different from anyone else? What do you have that you did not receive?^(C) And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?

⁸ Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich!^(D) You have begun to reign—and that without us! How I wish that you really had begun to reign so that we also might reign with you!

²¹ What do you prefer? Shall I come to you with a rod of discipline,^(A) or shall I come in love and with a gentle spirit?