1 Corinthians 4:18
16 Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.
17 For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.
Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.
19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power.
20 For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Some of you have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you.
- KJV
- Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.
- WEB
- Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.
- ASV
- Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.
- DARBY
- But some have been puffed up, as if I were not coming to you;
- BLB
- Now some were puffed up, as if I were not coming to you⁺.
- ÅB
- Men somme er blitt oppblåst, i den tanke at jeg ikke skulle komme til dere;
- OTB
- Nå har noen blitt innbilske, som om jeg ikke kom til dere.
- B1930
- Men somme er blitt opblåst, i den tanke at jeg ikke skulde komme til eder;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Corinthians 5:2
And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
Read in context1 Corinthians 4:6–8
And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.
Read in context1 Corinthians 4:21
What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?
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