1 Corinthians 4:18

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Formal EquivalenceSource: American Standard VersionBest for: Word studies and original-language research

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A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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Integrated Strong's numbering: Links English terms to underlying Hebrew and Greek words for deeper lexical study.
Formal equivalence: Prioritizes close alignment with source-language forms and structures.
Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Stable, longstanding scholarly text

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Archaic language reduces readability
Older textual basis compared to some modern translations
Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

1 Cor 4:6-8 : 6 Now these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye might learn not [to go] beyond the things which are written; that no one of you be puffed up for the one against the other. 7 For who maketh thee to differ? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? but if {G2532} thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it? 8 Already are ye filled, already ye are become rich, ye have come to reign without us: yea and I would that ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.
1 Cor 5:2 : 2 And ye are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he that had done this deed might be taken away from among you.
1 Cor 4:21 : 21 What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

1 Cor 4:19
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19But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will; and I will know, not the word of them that are puffed up, but the power.
1 Cor 4:6
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6Now these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye might learn not [to go] beyond the things which are written; that no one of you be puffed up for the one against the other.
2 Cor 12:20-21
2 verses
72%
20For I fear, lest by any means, when I come, I should find you not such as I would, and should myself be found of you such as ye would not; lest by any means [there should be] strife, jealousy, wraths, factions, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults;
21lest again when I come {G3825} my God should humble me before you, and I should mourn for many of them that have sinned heretofore, and repented not of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they committed.
Rom 1:13
72%
13And I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you (and was hindered hitherto), that I might have some fruit in you also, even as in the rest of the Gentiles.
2 Tim 4:9
72%
9Give diligence to come shortly unto me:
2 Cor 9:3-4
2 verses
72%
3But I have sent the brethren, that our glorying on your behalf may not be made void in this respect; that, even as I said, ye may be prepared:
4lest by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be put to shame in this {G5287} confidence.
1 Cor 16:5
71%
5But I will come unto you, when I shall have passed through Macedonia; for I pass through Macedonia;
1 Tim 3:14
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14These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly;
2 Cor 1:15-16
2 verses
71%
15And in this confidence I was minded to come first unto you, that ye might have a second benefit;
16and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come unto you, and of you to be set forward on my journey unto Judaea.
1 Cor 4:17
71%
17For this cause have I sent unto you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who shall put you in remembrance of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every church.
1 Cor 4:21
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21What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?
2 Cor 10:2
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2yea, I beseech you, that I may not when present show courage with the confidence wherewith I count to be bold against some, who count of us as if we walked according to the flesh.
2 Cor 13:2
70%
2I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as when I was present the second time, so now, being absent, to them that have sinned heretofore, and to all the rest, that, if I come {G1519} again, I will not spare;
2 Cor 10:8-11
4 verses
70%
8For though {G5037} I should glory {G2532} somewhat abundantly concerning our authority (which the Lord gave {G2254} for building you up, and not for casting you down), I shall not be put to shame:
9that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by my letters.
10For, His letters, they say, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.
11Let such a one reckon this, that, what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such [are we] also in deed when we are present.
2 Cor 11:16-18
3 verses
70%
16I say again, let no man think me {G1511} foolish; but if [ye do], yet as foolish receive me, that {G2504} I also may glory a little.
17That which I speak, I speak not after the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of glorying.
18Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
Rom 15:22-24
3 verses
70%
22Wherefore also I was hindered these many times from coming to you:
23but now, having no more any place in these regions, and having these many years a longing to come unto you,
24whensoever I go unto Spain (for I hope to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first in some measure I shall have been satisfied with your company)—
2 Cor 11:5
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5For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
2 Cor 12:1
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1I must needs glory, though it is not expedient; but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
2 Cor 2:1
69%
1But I determined this for myself, that I would not come again to you with sorrow.
Phil 2:24
69%
24but I trust in the Lord that I myself also shall come shortly.
Phil 1:26
69%
26that your glorying may abound in Christ Jesus in me through my presence with you again.
Rom 15:29
69%
29And I know that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of Christ.
2 John 1:12
69%
12Having many things to write unto you, I would not [write them] with paper and ink: but I hope to come unto you, and to speak face to face, that your joy may be made full.
1 Cor 11:17
69%
17But in giving you this charge, I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better but for the worse.
Phlm 1:8
69%
8Wherefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to enjoin thee that which is befitting,
1 Thess 2:19
69%
19For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of glorying? Are not even ye, before our Lord Jesus {G5547} at his coming?
2 Cor 12:6
69%
6For if I should desire to glory, I shall not be foolish; for I shall speak the truth: but I forbear, lest any man should account of me above that which he seeth me [to be], or heareth {G5100} from me.
2 Cor 13:10
68%
10For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not when present deal sharply, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for casting down.
2 Cor 1:23
68%
23But I call God for a witness upon my soul, that to spare you I forbare to come unto Corinth.
1 Cor 16:7
68%
7For I do not wish to see you now by the way; for I hope to tarry {G5100} a while with you, if the Lord permit.
1 Cor 16:12
68%
12But as touching Apollos the brother, I besought him much to come unto you with the brethren: and it was not all [his] will to come now; but he will come when he shall have opportunity.
2 Cor 2:3
68%
3And I wrote this very thing, {G5213} 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.
2 Cor 11:10
68%
10As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this glorying in the regions of Achaia.
1 Cor 5:2
68%
2And ye are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he that had done this deed might be taken away from among you.
Phil 2:19
68%
19But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.
Rom 1:10-11
2 verses
68%
10making request, if by any means now at length I may be prospered by the will of God to come unto you.
11For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;
2 Thess 2:1
68%
1Now we beseech you, brethren, touching the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together unto him;
Gal 4:20
68%
20but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone; for I am perplexed about you.
Phil 1:17
67%
17but the other {G3303} proclaim Christ of faction, not sincerely, thinking to raise up affliction for me in my bonds.