1 Corinthians 4:21

21What do you wish? aShall I come to you with a rod, or with love in a spirit of gentleness?

2 Corinthians 13:2

2 bI warned cthose who sinned before and all the others, and I warn them now while absent, as I did when present on my second visit, that dif I come again I will not spare them—

2 Corinthians 13:10

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

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