1 Corinthians 4:19
Good News Translation
If the Lord is willing, however, I will come to you soon, and then I will find out for myself the power which these proud people have, and not just what they say.

New Revised Standard Version
But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I will find out not the talk of these arrogant people but their power.

Contemporary English Version
But if the Lord lets me come, I will soon be there. Then I will find out if the ones who are doing all this bragging really have any power.

New American Bible
But I will come to you soon, if the Lord is willing, and I shall ascertain not the talk of these inflated people but their power.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But 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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But 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.

I.

1 Corinthians 14:5 And I would have you all to speak with tongues, but rather to prophesy. For greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues: unless perhaps he interpret, that the church may receive edification.

Acts 19:21 And when these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying: After I have been there, I must see Rome also.

2 Corinthians 1:15,17,23 And in this confidence I had a mind to come to you before, that you might have a second grace: . . .

2 Corinthians 2:1,2 But I determined this with myself, to come to you again in sorrow. . . .

if.

Acts 18:21 But taking his leave and saying: I will return to you again, God willing, he departed from Ephesus.

Romans 15:32 That I may come to you with joy, by the will of God, and may be refreshed with you.

Hebrews 6:3 And this will we do, if God permit.

James 4:15 For what is your life? It is a vapour which appeareth for a little while and afterwards shall vanish away. For that you should say: If the Lord will, and, If we shall live, we will do this or that.

not.

1 Corinthians 4:18 As if I would not come to you, so some are puffed up.

2 Corinthians 13:1-4 Behold, this is the third time I am coming to you: In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word stand. . . .

but.

1 Corinthians 2:6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among the perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, neither of the princes of this world that come to nought.

Context
Paul Warns his Children
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. 20For the kingdom of God is not in speech, but in power.…
Cross References
Acts 18:21
But taking his leave and saying: I will return to you again, God willing, he departed from Ephesus.

Acts 19:21
And when these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying: After I have been there, I must see Rome also.

Acts 20:2
And when he had gone over those parts and had exhorted them with many words, he came into Greece:

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 11:34
If any man be hungry, let him eat at home; that you come not together unto judgment. And the rest I will set in order, when I come.

1 Corinthians 16:5
Now I will come to you, when I shall have passed through Macedonia. For I shall pass through Macedonia.

1 Corinthians 16:7
For I will not see you now by the way: for I trust that I shall abide with you some time, if the Lord permit.

2 Corinthians 1:15
And in this confidence I had a mind to come to you before, that you might have a second grace:

1 Corinthians 4:18
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