Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.(1 Corinthians 4:18)

But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power.(1 Corinthians 4:19)

For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.(1 Corinthians 4:20)

What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?

It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.(1 Corinthians 5:1)

And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.(1 Corinthians 5:2)

For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,(1 Corinthians 5:3)

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1 Corinthians 4:21 - Cross Reference

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: (2 Corinthians 12:20)

For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth. (2 Corinthians 3:10)

Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction. (2 Corinthians 13:10)

For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed: (2 Corinthians 10:8)

Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you: (2 Corinthians 10:1)

Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth. (2 Corinthians 1:23)

And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled. (2 Corinthians 10:6)

But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children: (1 Thessalonians 2:7)

I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare: (2 Corinthians 13:2)

To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. (1 Corinthians 5:5)

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. (James 3:17)

But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness. (2 Corinthians 2:1)

And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all. (2 Corinthians 2:3)