1 Corinthians 4:21

What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and [in] the spirit of meekness?

What {G5101} will ye {G2309}? shall I come {G2064} unto {G4314} you {G5209} with {G1722} a rod {G4464}, or {G2228} in {G1722} love {G26}, and {G5037} in the spirit {G4151} of meekness {G4236}?

Which do you prefer — should I come to you with a stick? or with love in a spirit of gentleness?

Which do you prefer? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and with a gentle spirit?

What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?

Commentary

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Cross-References

  • 2 Corinthians 13:2 (8 votes)

    I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:

  • 2 Corinthians 12:20 (5 votes)

    For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and [that] I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest [there be] debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

  • 2 Corinthians 12:21 (5 votes)

    [And] lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and [that] I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.

  • 2 Corinthians 13:10 (5 votes)

    Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.

  • 1 Thessalonians 2:7 (5 votes)

    ¶ But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:

  • 2 Corinthians 1:23 (4 votes)

    Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.

  • 2 Corinthians 2:3 (4 votes)

    And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is [the joy] of you all.