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.
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 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.
Titus 1:13
This testimony is true; for which cause rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,
1 Corinthians 4:21
What will ye? Am I to come to you with a rod, or in love, and the spirit of mildness?
2 Corinthians 10:2
but I entreat you, that I may not when I am present be bold with that confidence wherewith I think of being bold towards some, who think of us as walking according to the flesh.
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;
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 13:8
For we have no power against the truth, but for the truth.