2 Corinthians 13:2 Cross References - Mace

² I told you once before, and now being absent I write to forewarn you and all that have sinned, that when I shall arrive, I will not spare them;

¹⁹ but if the Lord pleases, I will visit you very soon; and then I shall try, not what these boasters can say, but what they can do: ²⁰ for the gospel dispensation does not consist in talk, but in power. ²¹ Which would you chuse, that I should come to you arm'd with resentment? or, in a mild and benevolent temper?

⁵ to deliver him up to satan, to suffer corporal punishment, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus Christ.

²³ I call God to witness, and may I die if it is not true, that the reason of my not coming yet to Corinth, was to avoid using any severity towards you.

¹ I who am a person of a mean presence, when among you, but exert myself upon your account, when absent; I Paul intreat you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, not to let me exert that authority, ² when I am present, which I think to exercise against some, who censure me, as if I was actuated by worldly views.

⁸ for though I should more than ever magnify my authority, which the Lord hath given us for your improvement, and not for your ruin, I should have no reason to be ashamed; ⁹ but that I may not seem as if I would strike a terror in you by letters: ¹⁰ (for 'tis objected that my letters are weighty and powerful, but my bodily presence weak, and my preaching ¹¹ contemptible) let such a one depend upon this, that the same authority which appear'd in my letters, when I was absent, will appear in fact, when I am present.

²⁰ yet I fear when I do come I shall not find you such as I would, and that you will find me such as you least desire: I am afraid there are among you debates, envyings, animosities, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, arrogance, tumults: ²¹ and I am afraid, God will humble me when I come again among you, and I shall bewail many who have formerly sinned, and have not yet repented of their impurity, their fornication, and dissoluteness.

¹⁰ these things therefore I write to you being absent, that when I come I may not use severity, according to the power which the Lord hath given me for edification, and not for destruction.