And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Master with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized.
Paul, an apostle of Yahshua the Messiah by the will of Yahweh, and Timothy our brother, unto the assembly of Yahweh which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:
But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.
For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Master hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.
I told you before, and tell you beforehand, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which have sinned before, and to all others, that, if I come again, I will not spare: