2 Corinthians 13:10
On this account I write these things being absent, that being present I may not use severity according to the authority which the Lord has given me for building up, and not for overthrowing.
2 Corinthians 10:8
For and if I should boast even somewhat more abundantly of our authority, which the Lord has given to us for building up and not for your overthrowing, I shall not be put to shame;
2 Corinthians 2:3
And I have written this very letter to you, that coming I may not have grief from those from whom I ought to have joy; trusting in you all that my joy is that of you all.
Titus 1:13
This testimony is true; for which cause rebuke them severely, that they may be sound in the faith,
1 Corinthians 4:21
What will ye? that I come to you with a rod; or in love, and in a spirit of meekness?
2 Corinthians 10:2
but I beseech that present I may not be bold with the confidence with which I think to be daring towards some who think of us as walking according to flesh.
2 Corinthians 12:20-21
For I fear lest perhaps coming I find you not such as I wish, and that I be found by you such as ye do not wish: lest there might be strifes, jealousies, angers, contentions, evil speakings, whisperings, puffings up, disturbances;
2 Corinthians 13:2
I have declared beforehand, and I say beforehand as present the second time, and now absent, to those that have sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare.
2 Corinthians 13:8
For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.