1 Corinthians 4:21

Paul's Concern For The Corinthian Believers

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

In the Spirit

Rod of Correction

2 Corinthians 13:2

I said before, and now say beforehand, as when present the second time, so also absent now, to those who have sinned before, and to all the others, that if I come again, I will not spare;

2 Corinthians 1:23

But I call upon God as a witness against my soul, that it was to spare you that I came no more to Corinth;

2 Corinthians 13:10

For this cause I write these things while absent, that when present I may not use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord gave me for edification, and not for destruction.

1 Corinthians 5:5

to deliver such a man over to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

2 Corinthians 2:1

But I determined this with myself, that my next visit to you should not be in sorrow.

2 Corinthians 2:3

And I wrote about this very matter, that I might not on my coming have sorrow from those who ought to gladden me, having confidence in all of you, that my joy is the joy of you all.

2 Corinthians 3:10

For even that which was made glorious hath ceased to be glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory by which it is exceeded.

2 Corinthians 10:1-2

Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, I, who present indeed am lowly among you, but am bold toward you when absent;

2 Corinthians 10:6

and being in readiness to punish every disobedience, when the measure of your obedience shall be full.

2 Corinthians 10:8

For even if I should boast still more highly of our authority, which the Lord gave us for building you up, and not pulling you down, I should not be put to shame;

2 Corinthians 12:20-21

For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and lest I too shall be found by you such as ye would not; lest there be wranglings, envying, wraths, rivalries, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults;

1 Thessalonians 2:7

But we were gentle in the midst of you, even as a nurse cherisheth her own children;

James 3:17

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, without hypocrisy.