1 Corinthians 4:21

¹⁹ But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power.

²⁰ For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.

What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: Which do you prefer? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and with a gentle spirit?
KJV: What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?
WEB: What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?
ASV: What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?
DARBY: What will ye? that I come to you with a rod; or in love, and [in] a spirit of meekness?
BLB: What do you⁺ want? Should I come to you⁺ with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?

ÅB: Hva vil dere? skal jeg komme til dere med ris, eller med kjærlighet og saktmodighets ånd?
OTB: Hva foretrekker dere? At jeg kommer til dere med en stokk, eller med kjærlighet og en ånd av mildhet?
B1930: Hvad vil I? skal jeg komme til eder med ris, eller med kjærlighet og saktmodighets ånd?

2 Corinthians 13:2
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:
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2 Corinthians 13:10
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.
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1 Thessalonians 2:7
But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:
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2 Corinthians 12:20–21
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:
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James 3:17
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.
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2 Corinthians 1:23
Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.
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2 Corinthians 2:3
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.
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2 Corinthians 2:1
But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.
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