"What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?"
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To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.
And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.
Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:
Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.
For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
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.
But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:
I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:
What is your desire? is my coming to be with punishment, or is it to be in love and a gentle spirit?
What will ye? that I come to you with a rod; or in love, and [in] a spirit of meekness?
What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?
What will ye? shall I come to you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?
What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?
what do ye wish? with a rod shall I come unto you, or in love, with a spirit also of meekness?