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18 Some of you have become conceited and arrogant and pretentious, counting on my not coming to you.

19 But I will come to you [and] shortly, if the Lord is willing, and then I will perceive and understand not what the talk of these puffed up and arrogant spirits amount to, but their force ([a]the moral power and excellence of soul they really possess).

20 For the kingdom of God consists of and is based on not talk but power ([b]moral power and excellence of soul).

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 4:19 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.
  2. 1 Corinthians 4:20 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.

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