1 Corinthians 4:21

Paul's Concern For The Corinthian Believers

²⁰ For the kingdom of God not in word, but in power. ²¹ What will ye? should I come to you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?

In the Spirit

Rod of Correction

2 Corinthians 13:2

I have said before, and say beforehand, as being present the second; and being away now I write to them having sinned before, and to all the rest, that, if I should come again, I will not spare:

2 Corinthians 1:23

And I call upon God a witness upon my soul, that, sparing you, I came no more to Corinth.

2 Corinthians 13:10

For this I write these things being absent, that being present I should not wound severely, according to the power which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for pulling down.

1 Corinthians 5:5

To deliver such a one to Satan for the ruin of the flesh, that the spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

2 Corinthians 2:1

And I determined this to myself, not to come to you again in sadness.

2 Corinthians 2:3

And I wrote this same to you lest, coming, I should have sadness from whom I ought to rejoice, trusting to you all, that mine is the joy of you all.

2 Corinthians 3:10

For also that having been glorified has not been glorified in this part, for sake of the glory excelling.

2 Corinthians 10:1-2

And I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and equity of Christ, who, in face truly low with you, but at a distance bold towards you:

2 Corinthians 10:6

And having in readiness to avenge every imperfect instruction, when your obedience should be completed.

2 Corinthians 10:8

For if I also boast something more abundantly of our power, which the Lord gave us for the building up, and not for your taking down, I shall not be ashamed:

2 Corinthians 12:20-21

For I am afraid, lest somehow, having come, I find you not such; as I will, and I find you such as ye wish not: lest somehow, strifes, jealousies, wraths, intrigues, calumnies, whisperings, inflations, derangements:

1 Thessalonians 2:7

But we were gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse should cherish her children:

James 3:17

And the wisdom from above is truly first pure, then peaceful, decorous, docile, full of mercy and good fruits, not separated, and unfeigned.