1 Corinthians 4:14-21 - Paul's Concern For The Corinthian Believers

¹⁴ Not, to shame you, write I these things; but, as my beloved children, I admonish you. ¹⁵ For, though myriads of tutors ye should have in Christ, yet not many fathers; for, in Christ Jesus, through means of the joyful message, I, begat you. ¹⁶ I beseech you, therefore, - become imitators of me. ¹⁷ For this cause, sent I unto you, Timothy, - who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who shall put, you, in mind of my ways which are in Christ Jesus, even as, everywhere, in every assembly, I teach. ¹⁸ But, as though I were not coming unto you, some are puffed up! ¹⁹ Howbeit, I will come quickly unto you, - if, the Lord, please, - and will get to know - not the speech of them who are puffed up, but, the power; ²⁰ For, not in speech, is the kingdom of God, but, in power. ²¹ What will ye? that, with a rod, I should come unto you? or, with love, and a spirit of meekness?