2 Corinthians 13:9-10 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.

KJV_Cambridge⁽ⁱ⁾ 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. ⁹ For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.