1 Corinthians 4:21

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

What would you prefer? Am I to come to you with a stick or with love in a spirit of gentleness?

Cross References

1 Corinthians 4:18

But some of you, thinking that I am not coming to you, have become arrogant.

1 Corinthians 5:5

you are to hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

2 Corinthians 1:23

But I call on God as witness against me: it was to spare you that I did not come again to Corinth.

2 Corinthians 10:6

We are ready to punish every disobedience when your obedience is complete.

2 Corinthians 10:8

Now, even if I boast a little too much of our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for tearing you down, I will not be ashamed of it.

2 Corinthians 12:18

I urged Titus to go and sent the brother with him. Titus did not take advantage of you, did he? Did we not conduct ourselves with the same spirit? Did we not walk in the same footsteps?

2 Corinthians 13:10

So I write these things while I am away from you, so that when I come I may not have to be severe in using the authority that the Lord has given me for building up and not for tearing down.

2 Corinthians 13:2

I warned those who sinned previously and all the others, and I warn them now while absent, as I did when present on my second visit, that if I come again I will not be lenient—

2 Corinthians 2:1

So I made up my mind not to make another visit that causes you grief.

2 Corinthians 2:3

And I wrote as I did, so that when I came, I might not suffer grief from those who should have made me rejoice, for I am confident about all of you, that my joy would be the joy of all of you.

2 Corinthians 3:10

Indeed, what once had glory has in this respect lost its glory because of the greater glory,

Galatians 6:1

My brothers and sisters, if anyone is detected in a transgression, you who have received the Spirit should restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness. Take care that you yourselves are not tempted.

1 Thessalonians 2:7

though we might have made demands as apostles of Christ. But we were gentle among you, like a nurse tenderly caring for her own children.

James 3:17

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without a trace of partiality or hypocrisy.