2Cor 13:10 | HCSB | STEP | This is why I am writing these things while absent , that when I am there I will not use severity , in keeping with the authority the Lord gave me for building up and not for tearing down .

2 Corinthians 13:10

10 This is why I am writing these things while absent, that when I am there I will not use severity, in keeping with the authority the Lord gave me for building up ^a and not for tearing down. ^b