1 Corinthians 4:18 Some of you have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Some of you have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you.

English Standard Version
Some are arrogant, as though I were not coming to you.

New American Standard Bible
Now some have become arrogant, as though I were not coming to you.

King James Bible
Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Now some are inflated with pride, as though I were not coming to you.

International Standard Version
Some of you have become arrogant, as though I were not coming to evaluate you.

American Standard Version
Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.

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

Darby Bible Translation
But some have been puffed up, as if I were not coming to you;

Young's Literal Translation
And as if I were not coming unto you certain were puffed up;

Cross References

1 Corinthians 4:6
And these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that you might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.

1 Corinthians 4:21
What will you? shall I come to you with a rod, or in love, 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, with which I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

2 Corinthians 12:20
For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found to you such as you would not: lest there be debates, contentions, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, arrogance, tumults:

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

4:14-21 In reproving for sin, we should distinguish between sinners and their sins. Reproofs that kindly and affectionately warn, are likely to reform. Though the apostle spoke with authority as a parent, he would rather beseech them in love. And as ministers are to set an example, others must follow them, as far as they follow Christ in faith and practice. Christians may mistake and differ in their views, but Christ and Christian truth are the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever. Whenever the gospel is effectual, it comes not in word only, but also in power, by the Holy Spirit, quickening dead sinners, delivering persons from the slavery of sin and Satan, renewing them both inwardly and outwardly, and comforting, strengthening, and establishing the saints, which cannot be done by the persuasive language of men, but by the power of God. And it is a happy temper, to have the spirit of love and meekness bear the rule, yet to maintain just authority.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

18. some … as though I would not come—He guards against some misconstruing (as by the Spirit he foresees they will, when his letter shall have arrived) his sending Timothy, "as though" he "would not come" (or, "were not coming") himself. A puffed-up spirit was the besetting sin of the Corinthians (compare 1Co 1:11; 5:2).