1 Corinthians 4:21 Cross References - Sawyer

²¹ What do you wish? shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a 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.

^{23 (1:6)} But I call God to witness on my soul, that to spare you I have not yet come to Corinth.

¹ But I determined this with myself, not to come again to you in sorrow;

³ And I wrote the same to you that coming I might not have sorrow for those in whom I ought to have joy, having trusted in you all that my joy is the joy of you all.

¹⁰ For that which was made glorious was not glorious in this respect, on account of the surpassing glory.

^{1 (3:1)} I PAUL also exhort you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in appearance am humble among you, but being absent am bold towards you; ² and I desire that I may not be bold when present, with that confidence which I design to use against some who speak of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

⁶ and being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is completed.

⁸ For if I should even boast some of our authority which the Lord gave for your edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed.

²⁰ For I fear lest when I come I shall not find you such as I wish, and that I shall be found such as you wish not; lest there shall be strife, envy, anger, contentions, evil speakings, whisperings, pride, dissensions; ²¹ lest when I come again my God shall humble me before you, and I shall mourn for many who have sinned, and not changed their minds, in respect to impurity and fornication and lewdness which they have committed.

² I have said before, and I now foretell as if present a second time, although absent, to those who have already sinned and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare;

¹⁰ For this reason, being absent, I write these things, that I may not use sharpness when present, with the power which the Lord has given me for building up, and not for pulling down.

⁷ but we were gentle among you, as a nurse would cherish her own children;

¹⁷ But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be persuaded, full of mercy and of good fruits, without partiality, without hypocrisy.