1 Corinthians 4:14-21

Evangelical Heritage Version

¹⁴ I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my dear children. ¹⁵ Indeed, even if you would have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you would not have many fathers. I say this, because in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel. ¹⁶ I urge you, therefore, be imitators of me. ¹⁷ That is why I have sent Timothy to you. He is my dearly loved and faithful child in the Lord, and he will remind you of my ways in Christ,^[a] just as I teach everywhere in every church.

¹⁸ Some have become arrogant, as though I were not coming to you. ¹⁹ But I will come to you soon, if the Lord is willing, and I will find out about the power, not the talk, of those who are arrogant. ²⁰ For the kingdom of God does not consist in talk, but in power. ²¹ What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?