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

¹⁴ I do not write these things shaming you, but admonishing you as my beloved children. ¹⁵ For if you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, but you have not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel. ¹⁶ Therefore I exhort you, be ye imitators of me. ¹⁷ For this same thing I sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ Jesus, as I teach everywhere in every church. ¹⁸ But some were inflated, as if I was not coming unto you. ¹⁹ But I will come to you quickly, if the Lord may will; and I will know not the word of those who have been puffed up, but the power. ²⁰ For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power. ²¹ What do you wish? must I come unto you with the rod, or in divine love and the spirit of meekness?