Parallel Verses
King James Version
What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?
New American Standard Bible
What do you desire?
Holman Bible
What do you want? Should I come to you with a rod,
International Standard Version
Which do you prefer? Should I come to you with a stick, or with love and a gentle spirit?
A Conservative Version
What do ye want? Should I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?
American Standard Version
What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?
Amplified
Which do you prefer? Shall I come to you with a rod [of discipline and correction], or with love and a gentle spirit?
An Understandable Version
Which do you [really] want? Shall I come to you with a rod [of discipline], or lovingly, and with a spirit of gentleness?
Anderson New Testament
What do you wish? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of gentleness?
Bible in Basic English
What is your desire? is my coming to be with punishment, or is it to be in love and a gentle spirit?
Common New Testament
What do you desire? Shall I come to you with a rod, or with love and a spirit of gentleness?
Daniel Mace New Testament
Which would you chuse, that I should come to you arm'd with resentment? or, in a mild and benevolent temper?
Darby Translation
What will ye? that I come to you with a rod; or in love, and in a spirit of meekness?
Godbey New Testament
What do you wish? must I come unto you with the rod, or in divine love and the spirit of meekness?
Goodspeed New Testament
Which will you have? Shall I come to you with a stick, or in a loving and gentle spirit?
John Wesley New Testament
What will ye? That I come to you with a rod? or in love, and the spirit of meekness?
Julia Smith Translation
What will ye? should I come to you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?
King James 2000
What do you wish? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?
Lexham Expanded Bible
What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or with love and a spirit of gentleness?
Modern King James verseion
What do you desire? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and the spirit of meekness?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
What will ye? Shall I come unto you with a rod, or else in love, and in the spirit of meekness?
Moffatt New Testament
Which is it to be? Am I to come to you with a rod of discipline or with love and a spirit of gentleness?
Montgomery New Testament
Which do you want? Am I to come to you with a rod, or in a loving and tender spirit?
NET Bible
What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod of discipline or with love and a spirit of gentleness?
New Heart English Bible
What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?
Noyes New Testament
What will ye? Am I to come to you with a rod, or in love, and the spirit of mildness?
Sawyer New Testament
What do you wish? shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of meekness?
The Emphasized Bible
What will ye? that, with a rod, I should come unto you? or, with love, and a spirit of meekness?
Thomas Haweis New Testament
What is your wish? That I should come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?
Twentieth Century New Testament
What do you wish? Am I to come to you with a rod, or in a loving and gentle spirit?
Webster
What will ye? shall I come to you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?
Weymouth New Testament
Which shall it be? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in a loving and tender spirit?
Williams New Testament
Which do you prefer? My coming to you with a club, or in a gentle, loving spirit?
World English Bible
What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?
Worrell New Testament
What do ye wish? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?
Worsley New Testament
What do ye chuse? that I should come to you with a rod? or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?
Youngs Literal Translation
what do ye wish? with a rod shall I come unto you, or in love, with a spirit also of meekness?
Interlinear
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Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Corinthians 4:21
Verse Info
Context Readings
Paul's Concern For The Corinthian Believers
20 For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power. 21 What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?
Cross References
2 Corinthians 13:2
I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:
2 Corinthians 1:23
Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.
2 Corinthians 13:10
Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.
1 Corinthians 5:5
To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
2 Corinthians 2:1
But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.
2 Corinthians 2:3
And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.
2 Corinthians 3:10
For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
2 Corinthians 10:1-2
Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:
2 Corinthians 10:6
And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
2 Corinthians 10:8
For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:
2 Corinthians 12:20-21
For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
1 Thessalonians 2:7
But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:
James 3:17
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.