But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power.
KJV
Greek original
Louis Segond 1910
Mais j'irai bientôt chez vous, si c'est la volonté du Seigneur, et je connaîtrai, non les paroles, mais la puissance de ceux qui se sont enflés.
KJV
But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power.
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
that relies on human eloquence without the power of the Holy Ghost. Wherefore he says just before ( 1 Cor. 4:19 ): "I . . . will know, not the speech of them that are puffed up, but the power": and of himself he had already said ( 1 Cor. 2:4 ): "My speech and my preaching was not…
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