Some of you have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you.
What do you prefer? Shall I come to you with a rod of discipline, or shall I come in love and with a gentle spirit?
And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have gone into mourning and have put out of your fellowship the man who has been doing this?
I beg you that when I come I may not have to be as bold as I expect to be toward some people who think that we live by the standards of this world.
For I am afraid that when I come I may not find you as I want you to be, and you may not find me as you want me to be. I fear that there may be discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance and disorder.