<p>4:19 <i>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- </i>&quot;Speech&quot; is <i>logos</i> and &quot;power&quot; is <i>dunamis</i>. There were many words in Corinth, many claiming to be teachers, even thousands of them (:15). The Lord's preaching was with both <i>logos </i>and <i>dunamis</i> (Lk. 4:36). These teachers were spirit-less; they were all word but no spirit / power. Paul began by writing that the power of God is the <i>logos</i> of the cross (1 Cor. 1:18). They were not teaching that, instead they were using the words of human wisdom; and so their message was without spirit / power. Paul's preaching was the <i>logos</i> with <i>dunamis</i> (1 Cor. 2:4; 2 Cor. 6:7; 1 Thess. 1:5). The problem of words being preached without the spirit is not unknown to us today. Mere fact, mere words, will not of themselves save anyone without spirituality or an element of the Spirit. In :20 Paul will go on to argue that the things of the Gospel of the Kingdom are not only in <i>logos</i> but also in <i>dunamis</i>. There was a danger in the first century, as there is today, of a form of Godliness, a teaching of a correct form of words, which was lacking in &quot;the power <i>dunamis</i> thereof&quot; (2 Tim. 3:5). We are kept by the <i>dunamis</i> of God unto salvation (1 Pet. 1:5). Simply imparting Biblical fact is not the same as spirituality. Theological truth can be held without the Spirit. Paul began in 1 Cor. 1 by pointing out this problem at Corinth; they had potentially been given the Spirit but they were Spirit-less (1 Cor. 3:1).</p>