1 Corinthians 4:18

THE MESSAGE

I know there are some among you who are so full of themselves they never listen to anyone, let alone me. They don't think I'll ever show up in person. But I'll be there sooner than you think, God willing, and then we'll see if they're full of anything but hot air. God's Way is not a matter of mere talk; it's an empowered life.

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
Some of you are acting so proud, it seems as though you think I won't be coming there again.

Revised Standard Version
Some are arrogant, as though I were not coming to you.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Some swell as though I wolde come no more at you.

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

International Standard Version
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New American Standard Bible
Now some have become arrogant, as though I were not coming to you.

New Century Version
Some of you have become proud, thinking that I will not come to you again.

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

Webster's Bible Translation
Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.

English Standard Version
Some are arrogant, as though I were not coming to you.

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

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Now some are puffed up, as if I would not come to you.

Weymouth's New Testament
But some of you have been puffed up through getting the idea that I am not coming to Corinth.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
As thouy Y schulde not come to you, so summe ben blowun with pride;

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

Berean Standard Bible
Some of you have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you.

Contemporary English Version
Some of you think I am not coming for a visit, and so you are bragging.

Amplified Bible
Now some of you have become arrogant and pretentious, as though I were not coming to see you.

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

Bible in Basic English
Now some are full of pride, as if I was not coming to you.

Complete Jewish Bible
When I didn't come to visit you, some of you became arrogant.

Darby Translation
But some have been puffed up, as if I were not coming to you;

Etheridge Translation
But as if I were not coming to you, some of you are inflated.

Murdock Translation
18 Now some of you are inflated, as though I would not [fn] come to you.

King James Version (1611)
Nowe some are puffed vp as though I would not come to you.

New Living Translation
Some of you have become arrogant, thinking I will not visit you again.

New Life Bible
Some of you are full of pride. You think that I am not coming to visit you.

New Revised Standard
But some of you, thinking that I am not coming to you, have become arrogant.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Some are puffed vp as though I woulde not come vnto you.

George Lamsa Translation
There are some among you who are puffed up, thinking I am unwilling to come to you.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, as though I were not coming unto you, some are puffed up!

Douay-Rheims Bible
As if I would not come to you, so some are puffed up.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Some swel as though I would come no more at you:

Good News Translation
Some of you have become proud because you have thought that I would not be coming to visit you.

Christian Standard Bible®
Now some are arrogant, as though I were not coming to you.

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

Lexham English Bible
But some have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you.

Literal Translation
As to my not coming to you now, some were puffed up.

Young's Literal Translation
And as if I were not coming unto you certain were puffed up;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Some are puft vp, as though I wolde come nomore at you.

Mace New Testament (1729)
Some make their boast as if I would not come to you.

New English Translation
Some have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you.

New King James Version
Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.

Simplified Cowboy Version
But some of you have become full of yourselves. Like a bully at the playground, you think the teacher is gone,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Now some have become arrogant, as though I were not coming to you.

Legacy Standard Bible
Now some have become puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.

Contextual Overview

¹⁷ This is why I sent Timothy to you earlier. He is also my dear son, and true to the Master. He will refresh your memory on the instructions I regularly give all the churches on the way of Christ. ¹⁸I know there are some among you who are so full of themselves they never listen to anyone, let alone me. They don't think I'll ever show up in person. But I'll be there sooner than you think, God willing, and then we'll see if they're full of anything but hot air. God's Way is not a matter of mere talk; it's an empowered life. ²¹ So how should I prepare to come to you? As a severe disciplinarian who makes you toe the mark? Or as a good friend and counselor who wants to share heart-to-heart with you? You decide.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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

Cross-References

Genesis 5:21
When Enoch was sixty-five years old, he had Methuselah. Enoch walked steadily with God. After he had Methuselah, he lived another 300 years, having more sons and daughters. Enoch lived a total of 365 years.

Genesis 36:2
Esau married women of Canaan: Adah, daughter of Elon the Hittite; Oholibamah, daughter of Anah and the granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite; and Basemath, daughter of Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth.

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.