2 ^mI warned ⁿthose who sinned before and all the others, and I warn them now while absent, as I did when present on my second visit, that ^oif I come again I will not spare them—

10 For this reason I write these things while I am away from you, that when I come ^zI may not have to be ^asevere in my use of ^bthe authority that the Lord has given me for building up and not for tearing down.

18 Some are ^rarrogant, ^sas though I were not coming to you.

21 What do you wish? ^vShall I come to you with a rod, or with love in a spirit of gentleness?