I write not these things to confound you: but I admonish you as my dearest children. 15For if you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, by the gospel, I have begotten you. 16Wherefore, I beseech you, be ye followers of me as I also am of Christ. 17For this cause have I sent to you Timothy, who is my dearest son and faithful in the Lord. Who will put you in mind of my ways, which are in Christ Jesus: as I teach every where in every church. 18As if I would not come to you, so some are puffed up. 19But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will: and will know, not the speech of them that are puffed up, but the power. 20For the kingdom of God is not in speech, but in power. 21What will you? Shall I come to you with a rod? Or in charity and in the spirit of meekness?