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I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.

For if you were to have countless tutors in Christ, yet you would not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.

For though ye have ten thousand instructers in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

Therefore I urge you, be imitators of me.

Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.

For this reason I have sent to you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, and he will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, just as I teach everywhere in every church.

For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.

Now some have become arrogant, as though I were not coming to you.

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

But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I shall find out, not the words of those who are arrogant, but their power.

But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power.

For the kingdom of God is not in words, but in power.

For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.

What do you desire? That I come to you with a rod, or with love and a spirit of gentleness?

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