21What do you prefer? Shall I come to you with a whip, or in love and with a gentle spirit?


In Context

18 Some of you have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you.

19 But I will come to you very soon, if the Lord is willing, and then I will find out not only how these arrogant people are talking, but what power they have.

20 For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power.

21 What do you prefer? Shall I come to you with a whip, or in love and with a gentle spirit?

1st Corinthians 4:21 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:21What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and [in] the spirit of meekness?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:21What will you ? shall I come to you with a rod; or in charity, and in the spirit of meekness ?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:21What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:21What will ye? that I come to you with a rod; or in love, and in a spirit of meekness?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:21What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of meekness?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:21What will ye? shall I come to you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:21What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:21what do ye wish? with a rod shall I come unto you, or in love, with a spirit also of meekness?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:21What will you? shall I come to you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?