1 Corinthians 4:21 Cross References - Goodspeed

²¹ Which will you have? Shall I come to you with a stick, or in a loving and gentle spirit?

⁵ I have handed the man over to Satan, for his physical destruction, in order that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.

²³ But upon my soul I call God to witness that it is simply to spare you that I have stayed away from Corinth.

¹ For I made up my mind not to make you another painful visit.

³ This is what I said in my letter, so that I might avoid coming and having my feelings hurt by the very people who might have been expected to make me happy, for I felt sure about you all, that what made me happy would make you all happy.

¹⁰ For in comparison with its surpassing splendor, what was splendid has come to have no splendor at all.

¹ I appeal to you personally, by the gentleness and forbearance of Christ—the Paul who is so humble when face to face with you, but so bold in dealing with you when he is far away! ² I beg you not to make me take as bold an attitude when I come, as I count on taking toward some people who suspect me of acting from worldly motives.

⁶ and am prepared to punish any trace of disobedience when you have made your obedience perfectly clear.

⁸ For suppose I do boast a little too much of my authority—which the Lord gave me to build you up, not to pull you down—I will not have to blush for it.

²⁰ for I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may find you not as I want to find you, and that you may find me not as you want to find me. I am afraid that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, bad feeling, rivalry, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder, ²¹ and that when I come back my God may humiliate me before you, and I may have to mourn over many who have kept on in their old sins and have never repented of the impurity, immorality, and sensuality in which they have indulged.

² Those who have kept on in their old sins and all the rest I have warned, and I warn them now while I am still away, as I did on my second visit, that if I come back I will spare nobody—

¹⁰ That is why I write this while I am away from you, so that when I come, I may not have to be harsh in my use of the authority the Lord has given me, for it was to build you up, not to pull you down.

⁷ We were children when we were with you; we were like a mother nursing her children.

¹⁷ The wisdom that is from above is first of all pure, then peaceable, considerate, willing to yield, full of compassion and good deeds, whole-hearted, straightforward.