Scriptures

New King James Version (NKJV)

1 Corinthians 4
¹⁵ For though you might have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
¹⁶ Therefore I urge you, imitate me.
¹⁷ For this reason I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful son in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach everywhere in every church.
¹⁸ Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.
¹⁹ But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord wills, and I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.
²⁰ For the kingdom of God is not in word but in power.
²¹ What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?
1 Corinthians 5
¹ It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles--that a man has his father’s wife!
² And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you.
³ For I indeed, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged (as though I were present) him who has so done this deed.
⁴ In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, along with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,