Some of you have become arrogant, thinking I will not visit you again.
Parallel translations
- WEB Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.
- KJV Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.
- BSB Some of you have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you.
- NKJV Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.
- NASB Now some have become arrogant, as though I were not coming to you.
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Quick answer
Some Corinthians had grown arrogant, assuming Paul would not actually visit. It matters because pride often thrives where accountability seems absent.
Overview
Certain members became 'puffed up,' presuming the apostle would stay away, perhaps emboldened to resist his authority. Paul names this arrogance directly, setting up his warning in the following verses. The verse shows how distance can breed presumption and prepares for his assertion that he will indeed come to test their claims.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 3
- 1 Cor 5:2You are puffed up, and didn’t rather mourn, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.
- 1 Cor 4:6–8Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.
- 1 Cor 4:21What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?
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