1 Corinthians 4:21
What do you wish? Am I to come to you with a rod, or in a loving and gentle spirit?
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?
In Context
20for the kingdom of God is based, not on words, but on power.
Cross References
2 Corinthians 1:23But, as my life will answer for it, I call God to witness that it was to spare you that I deferred my visit to Corinth.
2 Corinthians 2:3So I wrote as I did because I was afraid that if I had come, I should have been pained by those who ought to have made me glad; for I felt sure that it was true of you all that my joy was in every case yours also.
2 Corinthians 10:1Now, I, Paul, make a personal appeal to you by the meekness and gentleness of the Christ – I who, “in your presence, am humble in my bearing towards you, but, when absent, am bold in my language to you” –
2 Corinthians 10:8Even if I boast extravagantly about our authority – which the Lord gave us for building up your faith and not for overthrowing it – still I have no reason to be ashamed.
2 Corinthians 13:2I have said it, and I say it again before I come, just as if I were with you on my second visit, though for the moment absent, I say to those who have been long sinning, as well as to all others – that if I come again, I will spare no one.
1 Thessalonians 2:7But we lived among you with the simplicity of a child; we were like a woman nursing her own children.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 4:18-21
Paul's Affection and Authority. ( a. d. 57.) 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. 18 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. 21 What will ye? shall… Read the whole commentary →