Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
14 I do not write these things to make you ashamed. But you are my dear children and I want to teach you.
15 Even if you have ten thousand people to take care of you as Christians, yet you do not have many fathers. I am your Christian father because I brought you the good news.
16 So I beg you, do as I do.
17 That is why I am sending Timothy to you. I love Timothy very much. He is my Christian son. I can trust him. He will tell you again my Christian ways of living. I teach these same ways in every church meeting everywhere.
18 Some of you are proud of yourselves. You think I am not coming to visit you.
19 But I will come soon if it is the Lord's will. Then I will find, not the talk of those proud people, but their power.
20 The place where God rules is not a matter of talk, but of power.
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