Because of this I have 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, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 Corinthians 4:17 in context
1 Corinthians 4:14–20
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I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
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For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you don’t have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.
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I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.
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Because of this I have 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, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.
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Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.
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But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing. And I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.
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For God’s Kingdom is not in word, but in power.
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