TSK · 2 Corinthians 1:23

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?

But as God is faithful, our word toward you was not "Yes and no."

Yes, I beg you that I may not, when present, show courage with the confidence with which I intend to be bold against some, who consider us to be walking according to the flesh.

Why? Because I don't love you? God knows.

For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don't desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;

For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down.

For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I delivered to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.