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

¹⁴ This I don't write to give you any confusion, but by way of remonstrance, to you who are my dear children. ¹⁵ for though you may have ten thousand christian preceptors, you cannot have many fathers; since it was I that first instructed you in the gospel of Christ Jesus: ¹⁶ and therefore I intreat you, to copy after me. ¹⁷ 'tis for this end I have sent you Timothy, who is my dear disciple, and a faithful christian, who will inform you how I behave my self in every church where I teach the gospel of Christ. ¹⁸ Some make their boast as if I would not come to you. ¹⁹ but if the Lord pleases, I will visit you very soon; and then I shall try, not what these boasters can say, but what they can do: ²⁰ for the gospel dispensation does not consist in talk, but in power. ²¹ Which would you chuse, that I should come to you arm'd with resentment? or, in a mild and benevolent temper?