◄ 1 Corinthians 4:18 ►
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Good News Translation
Some of you have become proud because you have thought that I would not be coming to visit you.

New Revised Standard Version
But some of you, thinking that I am not coming to you, have become arrogant.

Contemporary English Version
Some of you think I am not coming for a visit, and so you are bragging.

New American Bible
Some have become inflated with pride, as if I were not coming to you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As if I would not come to you, so some are puffed up.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

As if I would not come to you, so some are puffed up.

Context
Paul Warns his Children
…17For this cause have I sent to you Timothy, who is my dearest son and faithful in the Lord. Who will put you in mind of my ways, which are in Christ Jesus: as I teach every where in every church. 18As if I would not come to you, so some are puffed up. 19But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will: and will know, not the speech of them that are puffed up, but the power.…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 4:6
But these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollo, for your sakes: that in us you may learn that one be not puffed up against the other for another, above that which is written.

1 Corinthians 4:21
What will you? Shall I come to you with a rod? Or in charity and in the spirit of meekness?

2 Corinthians 10:2
But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence wherewith I am thought to be bold, against some who reckon us as if we walked according to the flesh.

2 Corinthians 12:20
For I fear lest perhaps, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found by you such as you would not. Lest perhaps contentions, envyings, animosities, dissensions, detractions, whisperings, swellings, seditions, be among you.

1 Corinthians 4:17
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