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2 Corinthians 13 2
I have told you before, and foretell as if I were present the second time, and now being absent I write to those who have sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare—
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2 Corinthians 13 10
Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the authority which the Lord has given me for edification and not for destruction.
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2 Corinthians 12 20-2 Corinthians 12 21
For I fear lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I wish, and that I shall be found by you such as you do not wish; lest there be contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, backbitings, whisperings, conceits, tumults;lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and I shall mourn for many who have sinned before and have not repented of the uncleanness, fornication, and lewdness which they have practiced.
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2 Corinthians 1 23
Moreover I call God as witness against my soul, that to spare you I came no more to Corinth.
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1 Thessalonians 2 7
But we were gentle among you, just as a nursing mother cherishes her own children.
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2 Corinthians 2 3
And I wrote this very thing to you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow over those from whom I ought to have joy, having confidence in you all that my joy is the joy of you all.
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2 Corinthians 10 1-2 Corinthians 10 2
Now I, Paul, myself am pleading with you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ— who in presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.But I beg you that when I am present I may not be bold with that confidence by which I intend to be bold against some, who think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.
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2 Corinthians 2 1
But I determined this within myself, that I would not come again to you in sorrow.
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1 Corinthians 5 5
deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
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James 3:17
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.
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2 Corinthians 3 10
For even what was made glorious had no glory in this respect, because of the glory that excels.
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2 Corinthians 10 6
and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled.
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2 Corinthians 10 8
For even if I should boast somewhat more about our authority, which the Lord gave us for edification and not for your destruction, I shall not be ashamed—