1 Corinthians 4:17-5:5 (Epistle)
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- 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.
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- Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.
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- 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.
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- For the kingdom of God is not in word but in power.
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- What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?
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- 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!
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- And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you.
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- 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.
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- 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,
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- deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.