“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.”
King James Version (KJV)
4:19 I will know - He here shows his fatherly authority Not the big, empty speech of these vain boasters, but how much of the power of God attends them.
1Co 4:19 I will come to you shortly. If God permitted, he would soon follow, and would put to the test those puffed up (1Co 16:7,8). Not the speech . . . but the power. He will confront these vain boasters, and see what power is behind their swelling words.