1Co_4:14-21. Receive this censure (from 1Co_4:7 onwards) not as meant to put you utterly to shame, but as an admonition from your spiritual father, whom ye ought to copy (1Co_4:14-16), for which cause I have also sent Timothy to you (1Co_4:17). But I—this by way of warning to those who are puffed up!—hope soon to come to you myself; am I to come to punish, or in gentleness (1Co_4:18-21)?