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2 Corinthians 10:6

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

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

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Boasting, as you do, of your Law, do you dishonor God by breaking the Law?

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

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.

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.

I had this further object, also, in what I wrote--to ascertain whether you might be relied upon to be obedient in everything.

And his affection for you is all the greater, as he remembers the deference that you all showed him, and recalls how you received him with anxious care.

Hymenaeus and Alexander are instances--the men whom I delivered over to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.

Therefore, when I come, I shall not forget his conduct in ridiculing us with his wicked tongue. Not content with that, he not only declines to recognize our Brothers himself, but actually prevents those who would, and expels them from the Church.




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