1 Corinthians 4:19-20

19But aI will come to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I will find out not the talk of these arrogant people but their power. 20For bthe kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power.

2 Corinthians 12:20

20For I fear that perhaps cwhen I come I may find you not as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wishthat perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, anger, hostility, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.

2 Corinthians 13:2-3

2 dI warned ethose who sinned before and all the others, and I warn them now while absent, as I did when present on my second visit, that fif I come again I will not spare them— 3since you seek proof that Christ gis speaking in me. He is not weak in dealing with you, but his powerful among you.

2 Corinthians 13:10

10For this reason I write these things while I am away from you, that when I come iI may not have to be jsevere in my use of kthe authority that the Lord has given me for building up and not for tearing down.

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