2 Corinthians 13:10

What do you desire? Shall I come to you with a rod, or with love and a spirit of gentleness?

in the name of our Lord Jesus, when you are assembled, and I with you in spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,

in purity, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in unhypocritical love,

But I beg that when I am present I need not act so courageously with the confidence that I consider to daringly use against some, who consider us as if we walked according to the flesh.

for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the tearing down of strongholds,

For even if I boast somewhat further about our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for tearing you down, I will not be put to shame,

I have previously said when present the second time, and though now absent I say in advance to those who have sinned in the past and to all the rest as well, that if I come again I will not spare anyone,

This testimony is true. For this reason reprove them severely so that they may be sound in the faith,