2 Corinthians 13:2 Cross References - ABU

² I have before said, and now say beforehand, as when present the second time, so also now when absent, to those who heretofore have sinned, and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare;

¹⁹ But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power. ²⁰ For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power. ²¹ What will ye? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love, and the spirit of meekness?

⁵ to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

²³ But I invoke God for a witness upon my soul, that to spare you I came not yet to Corinth.

¹ NOW I, Paul, myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence indeed am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you; ² but I entreat, that I may not when I am present be bold with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, who think of us as walking according to the flesh.

⁸ For even if I should boast somewhat more abundantly of our authority, which the Lord gave us for edification, and not for your destruction, I shall not be put to shame; ⁹ that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by my letters. ¹⁰ For his letters, says one, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible. ¹¹ Let such a one consider this, that such as we are in word by letters when absent, such will we be also in deed when present.

²⁰ For I fear, lest haply, when I come, I shall find you not such as I would, and I too shall be found by you such as ye would not; lest there be wranglings, envyings, wraths, rivalries, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults; ²¹ lest, when I come again, my God shall humble me among you, and I shall bewail many of those who have sinned before, and repented not of the uncleanness, and fornication, and wantonness, which they committed.

¹⁰ For this cause I write these things being absent, that when present I may not use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord gave me for edification, and not for destruction.