1 Corinthians 4:18

Syriac Peshitta (NT Only)

ܐܰܝܟ݂ ܗܰܘ ܕ݁ܶܝܢ ܕ݁ܠܳܐ ܐܳܬ݂ܶܐ ܐ݈ܢܳܐ ܠܘܳܬ݂ܟ݂ܽܘܢ ܐܶܬ݂ܚܬ݂ܰܪܘ ܐ݈ܢܳܫܳܐ ܡܶܢܟ݂ܽܘܢ ܀

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1 Corinthians 4:6-8, 1 Corinthians 5:2

Reciprocal: 1 Corinthians 4:8 - without 1 Corinthians 4:19 - not 1 Corinthians 5:6 - glorying 1 Corinthians 8:1 - Knowledge 1 Corinthians 13:4 - is not 2 Corinthians 12:20 - and that Galatians 4:17 - exclude you Colossians 2:18 - vainly

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now some are puffed up,.... Some with their gifts, learning, and eloquence, and with the high station they were in, in the church; believing they should continue therein undisturbed, thinking them selves safe and secure through the absence of the apostle, and which they flattered themselves would always be the case:

as though I would not come to you; and others that were for Apollos and Cephas against Paul, were puffed up against their fellow members on the same account; hoping they should never see him more, to put them in any other situation than what they were in, by demolishing their factions and parties; and others, as the incestuous person, and those that took encouragement to sin by his example, were also puffed up upon this score, and mourned not over, nor repented of their iniquities, but remained secure and hardened; believing the apostle would never more come among them, to call them to an account for their malpractices.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Now some are puffed up - They are puffed up with a vain confidence; they say that I would not dare to come; that I would be afraid to appear among them, to administer discipline, to rebuke them, or to supersede their authority. Probably he had been detained by the demand on his services in other places, and by various providential hinderances from going there, until they supposed that he stayed away from fear. And possibly he might apprehend that they would think he had sent Timothy because he was afraid to come himself. Their conduct was an instance of the haughtiness and arrogance which people will assume when they suppose they are in no danger of reproof or punishment.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 18. Some are puffed up — Some of your teachers act with great haughtiness, imagining themselves to be safe, because they suppose that I shall not revisit Corinth.