2 Corinthians 13:10
This is why I am writing this while far away from you, that when I do come, I may not have to deal harshly with you in accordance with the authority which the Lord has given me, for building you up, not for tearing you down.
2 Corinthians 10:8
For if I do boast a little too much about my authority, which the Lord gave me for building you up and not for tearing you down, I shall never have to blush for doing so.
2 Corinthians 2:3
This is the very thing I wrote you, that when I did come I might not be made sad by the very people who ought to make me glad, for I had confidence in you all that my gladness would be gladness to you all.
Titus 1:13
Now this tendency is true. So continue correcting them severely, that they may be healthy in faith,
1 Corinthians 4:21
Which do you prefer? My coming to you with a club, or in a gentle, loving spirit?
2 Corinthians 10:2
I beg you not to make me too courageous in that confidence in which I think to take a daring stand against some people who try to think that I am acting from the lowest human motives.
2 Corinthians 12:20-21
I repeat it, I am apprehensive that, somehow or other, there may be quarreling, jealousy, anger, rivalries, slanders, gossiping, haughty pride, and disorders,
2 Corinthians 13:2
I have already warned those who formerly committed shocking sins, and all the rest, and though so far away I warn them now, as I did on my second visit, that if I come back I will not spare them,
2 Corinthians 13:8
For I cannot do anything against the truth, but only for it.