18 Some are arrogant, as though I were not coming to you. 19 But rI will come to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I will find out not the talk of these arrogant people but their power.
2 And you are xarrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? yLet him who has done this be removed from among you.
Food Offered to Idols
1 oNow concerning1 pfood offered to qidols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” This “knowledge” rpuffs up, but love sbuilds up.
4 Love is gpatient and hkind; love idoes not envy or boast; it is not jarrogant
20 For I fear that perhaps when I come vI may find you not as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish—that perhaps there may be wquarreling, jealousy, anger, hostility, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.
18 Let no one udisqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions,1 vpuffed up wwithout reason by his sensuous mind,