1 Corinthians 4:14-21
Disciples’ Literal New Testament
I Am Writing To Admonish You As My Children. Be Imitators of Me
14 I am writing these things not shaming you, but admonishing you as my beloved children. 15 For if you should have ten-thousand tutors[a] in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers. For I fathered you in Christ Jesus through the good-news. 16 Therefore I exhort you— be[b] imitators of me. 17 For this reason I sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you as to my ways in Christ Jesus, just as I am teaching everywhere in every church. 18 Now some were puffed-up as-if I were not coming to you. 19 But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills. And I shall come-to-know not the talk[c] of the ones having been puffed-up, but the power. 20 For the kingdom of God is not in[d] talk, but in power. 21 What do you want? Should I come to you with a rod, or with love and a spirit of gentleness?
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- 1 Corinthians 4:15 Or, guardians, guides.
- 1 Corinthians 4:16 Or, become.
- 1 Corinthians 4:19 Or, message, word.
- 1 Corinthians 4:20 That is, in the sphere of.
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