2 Corinthians 13:10
For this reason I am writing this while I am away from you: When I come I do not want to be severe in using the authority the Lord gave me to build you up and not to tear you down.
2 Corinthians 10:8
So if I boast a little too much about our authority, which the Lord gave us to build you up and not to tear you down, I will not be ashamed of it.
2 Corinthians 2:3
This is the very reason I wrote you, so that when I did come I might not be made sad by those who should have made me happy. For I had confidence that all of you would share the joy that I have.
Titus 1:13
That statement is true. For this reason, refute them sharply so that they may become healthy in the faith
1 Corinthians 4:21
Which do you prefer? Should I come to you with a stick, or with love and a gentle spirit?
2 Corinthians 10:2
I beg you that when I come I will not need to be courageous by daring to oppose some people who think that we are living according to the flesh.
2 Corinthians 12:20-21
I am afraid that I may come and somehow find you not as I want to find you, and that you may find me not as you want to find me. Perhaps there will be quarreling, jealousy, anger, selfishness, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorderly conduct.
2 Corinthians 13:2
I have already warned those who sinned previously and all the rest. Although I am absent now, I am warning them as I did on my second visit: If I come back, I will not spare you,
2 Corinthians 13:8
For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth.