1 Corinthians 4:21

Paul's Concern For The Corinthian Believers

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

In the Spirit

Rod of Correction

2 Corinthians 13:2

I told you before, and do tell before-hand (though now absent, as if I were present the second time) those who had sinned before, and all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare:

2 Corinthians 1:23

But I call God for a record on my soul, that to spare you, I came not as yet to Corinth.

2 Corinthians 13:10

Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use severity, according to the power which the Lord hath given me, for edification, and not for destruction.

1 Corinthians 5:5

with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, To deliver such an one to 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 with myself not to come to you again in grief.

2 Corinthians 2:3

And I wrote thus to you, that I might not when I come have grief from those for whom I ought to rejoice; being persuaded concerning you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

2 Corinthians 3:10

For even that which was made glorious, had no glory in this respect, because of the glory that excelleth.

2 Corinthians 10:1-2

Now I Paul myself, who when present am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you, intreat you, by the meekness and gentleness of Christ,

2 Corinthians 10:6

And being in readiness to avenge all disobedience, now your obedience is fulfilled.

2 Corinthians 10:8

Yea, if I should boast something more also of the authority which the Lord hath given us, for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:

2 Corinthians 12:20-21

For I fear lest when I come, I should not find you such as I would, and lest I should be found by you such as ye would not: lest there should be contentions, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults, Lest my God should humble me when I come to you again,

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 that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits,