18 [a]Some are puffed up as though I would not come unto you.

19 But I will come to you shortly, (A)if the Lord will, and I will know, not the [b]words of them which are puffed up, but the power.

20 For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 4:18 Last of all he descendeth also to Apostolic threatenings, but yet chiding them as a father, lest by their disorder he be constrained to come to punish some among them.
  2. 1 Corinthians 4:19 By words, he meaneth their painted and colored kind of eloquence, against which he setteth the virtue of the Spirit.

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