1 Corinthians 4:21

Paul's Concern For The Corinthian Believers

²⁰ For the Kingdom of God is not in words, but in power. ²¹ What will ye? Shall I come unto you with a rod, or else in love, and in the spirit of meekness?

In the Spirit

Rod of Correction

2 Corinthians 13:2

I told you before, and tell you before, and as I said when I was present with you the second time, so write I now, being absent, to them which in time past have sinned, and to all others: that if I come again, I will not spare;

2 Corinthians 1:23

I call God for a record unto my soul, that for to favor you withal, I came not any more unto Corinth.

2 Corinthians 13:10

Therefore write I these things being absent, lest when I am present I should use sharpness according to the power which the Lord hath given me, to edify, and not to destroy.

1 Corinthians 5:5

to deliver him unto Satan, for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

2 Corinthians 2:1

But I determined this in myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.

2 Corinthians 2:3

And I wrote this same epistle unto you, lest if I came, I should take heaviness of them, of whom I ought to rejoice. Certainly this confidence have I in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

2 Corinthians 3:10

For no doubt that which was there glorified is not once glorified in respect of this exceeding glory.

2 Corinthians 10:1-2

I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and softness of Christ, which when I am present among you, am of no reputation, but am bold toward you being absent.

2 Corinthians 10:6

and are ready to take vengeance on all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

2 Corinthians 10:8

And though I should boast myself somewhat more of our authority which the Lord hath given us to edify and not to destroy you, it should not be to my shame.

2 Corinthians 12:20-21

For I fear, lest it come to pass, that when I come I shall not find you such as I would: and I shall be found unto you such as I would not. I fear lest there be found among you debate, envying, wrath, strife, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, and discord.

1 Thessalonians 2:7

But were tender among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children,

James 3:17

but the wisdom that is from above, is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without judging, and without simulation.