004:016 I entreat you therefore to become like me.
004:017 For this reason I have sent Timothy to you. Spiritually he is my dearly-loved and faithful child. He will remind you of my habits as a Christian teacher— the manner in which I teach everywhere in every Church.
004:018 But some of you have been puffed up through getting the idea that I am not coming to Corinth.
004:019 But, if the Lord is willing, I shall come to you without delay; and then I shall know not the fine speeches of these conceited people, but their power.
004:020 For Apostolic authority is not a thing of words, but of power.
004:021 Which shall it be? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in a loving and tender spirit?
005:001 It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and of a kind unheard of even among the Gentiles—a man has his father's wife!
005:002 And you, instead of mourning and removing from among you the man who has done this deed of shame, are filled with self-complacency!
005:003 I for my part, present with you in spirit although absent in body, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has so acted.
005:004 In the name of our Lord Jesus, when you are all assembled and my spirit is with you, together with the power of our Lord Jesus,