1 Corinthians 4:21

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

What do you wish? Am I to come to you with a rod, or in a loving and gentle spirit?

Cross References

1 Corinthians 4:18

Some, I hear, are puffed up with pride, thinking that I am not coming to you.

1 Corinthians 5:5

To deliver such a man as this over to Satan, that what is sensual in him may be destroyed, so that his spirit may be saved at the Day of the Lord.

2 Corinthians 1:23

But, as my life shall answer for it, I call God to witness that it was to spare you that I deferred my visit to Corinth.

2 Corinthians 10:6

And are fully prepared to punish every act of rebellion, when once your submission is complete.

2 Corinthians 10:8

Even if I boast extravagantly about our authority--which the Lord gave us for building up your faith and not for overthrowing it--still I have no reason to be ashamed.

2 Corinthians 12:18

I urged Titus to go, and I sent our Brother with him. Did Titus take any advantage of you? Did not we live in the same Spirit, and tread in the same footsteps?

2 Corinthians 13:10

This is my reason for writing as I am now doing, while I am away from you, so that, when I am with you, I may not act harshly in the exercise of the authority which the Lord gave me--and gave me for building up and not for pulling down.

2 Corinthians 13:2

I have said it, and I say it again before I come, just as if I were with you on my second visit, though for the moment absent, I say to those who have been long sinning, as well as to all others--that if I come again, I shall spare no one.

2 Corinthians 2:1

For my own sake, as well, I decided not to pay you another painful visit.

2 Corinthians 2:3

So I wrote as I did, for fear that, if I had come, I should have been pained by those who ought to have made me glad; for I felt sure that it was true of you all that my joy was in every case yours also.

2 Corinthians 3:10

Indeed, that which then had glory has lost its glory, because of the glory which surpasses it.

Galatians 6:1

Brothers, even if a man should be caught committing a sin, you who are spiritually minded should, in a gentle spirit, help him to recover himself, taking care lest any one of you also should be tempted.

1 Thessalonians 2:7

But we lived among you with the simplicity of a child; we were like a woman nursing her own children.

James 3:17

But the wisdom from above is, before every thing else, pure; then peace-loving, gentle, open to conviction, rich in compassion and good deeds, and free from partiality and insincerity.