Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:

Heretofore

Bible References

Told

2 Corinthians 1:23
But I call God to witness on my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet to Corinth:
2 Corinthians 10:1
Now I Paul myself exhort you, by the meekness and lenity of Christ, who in presence am lowly among you,
2 Corinthians 12:20
For I am afraid least when I come, I should not find you such as I could wish, and I should be found to you such as ye would not: least there should be contentions, emulations, animosities, strifes, thwartings, whisperings, swellings, tumults: and least,
1 Corinthians 4:19
But I will come to you soon, if the Lord please, and will know, not the speech of them that are puffed up, but the power:
1 Corinthians 5:5
of our Lord Jesus Christ, to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. Your boasting is not good.

Being

2 Corinthians 13:10
Therefore I write these things while absent, that when present I may not use severity, according to the power which the Lord hath given me for edification, and not for destruction.

Heretofore

2 Corinthians 12:21
when I come again, my God should humble me among you, and I should be grieved for many of those who have sinned heretofore, and have not repented of the impurity, and fornication, and lewdness which they have practised.