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16 and therefore I intreat you, to copy after me. 17 'tis for this end I have sent you Timothy, who is my dear disciple, and a faithful christian, who will inform you how I behave my self in every church where I teach the gospel of Christ. 18 Some make their boast as if I would not come to you. 19 but if the Lord pleases, I will visit you very soon; and then I shall try, not what these boasters can say, but what they can do: 20 for the gospel dispensation does not consist in talk, but in power. 21 Which would you chuse, that I should come to you arm'd with resentment? or, in a mild and benevolent temper? 1 Corinthians 4:16-21, Mace New Testament. Public domain.
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