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:
Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the assembly.