Verse 21

What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Cor 13:2 : 2 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:
  • 2 Cor 13:10 : 10 Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.
  • 1 Thess 2:7 : 7 But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:
  • 2 Cor 1:23 : 23 Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.
  • 2 Cor 12:20-21 : 20 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults: 21 And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
  • 2 Cor 10:1-2 : 1 Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you: 2 But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.
  • 2 Cor 2:1 : 1 But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.
  • 2 Cor 2:3 : 3 And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.
  • 2 Cor 3:10 : 10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
  • 2 Cor 10:6 : 6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
  • 2 Cor 10:8 : 8 For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:
  • 1 Cor 5:5 : 5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
  • Jas 3:17 : 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.