1 Corinthians 4:21

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...

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:

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.

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.

Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.

And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.

For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.

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 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: