Verse 10

Therefore write I these thinges being absent, least when I am present, I should vse sharpenesse, according to the power which the Lorde hath giuen mee, to edification, and not to destruction.

Referenced Verses

• 2 Cor 10:8 : 8 For though I shoulde boast somewhat more of our authoritie, which the Lorde hath giuen vs for edification, and not for your destruction, I should haue no shame.
• 2 Cor 2:3 : 3 And I wrote this same thing vnto you, lest when I came, I should take heauines of them, of whom I ought to reioyce: this confidence haue I in you all, that my ioye is the ioye of you all.
• Titus 1:13 : 13 This witnesse is true: wherefore conuince them sharply, that they may be sound in ye faith,
• 1 Cor 4:21 : 21 What will ye? shall I come vnto you with a rod, or in loue, & in ye spirite of meekenes?
• 2 Cor 10:2 : 2 And this I require you, that I neede not to be bolde when I am present, with that same confidence, wherewith I thinke to bee bolde against some, which esteeme vs as though wee walked according to the flesh.
• 2 Cor 12:20-21 : 20 For I feare least when I come, I shall not finde you such as I would: and that I shalbe found vnto you such as ye woulde not, and least there be strife, enuying, wrath, contentions, backebitings, whisperings, swellings and discord. 21 I feare least when I come againe, my God abase me among you, and I shall bewaile many of them which haue sinned already, and haue not repented of the vncleannesse, and fornication, and wantonnesse which they haue committed.
• 2 Cor 13:2 : 2 I tolde you before, and tell you before: as though I had bene present the seconde time, so write I nowe being absent to them which heretofore haue sinned and to all others, that if I come againe, I will not spare,
• 2 Cor 13:8 : 8 For wee can not doe any thing against the trueth, but for the trueth.