2 CORINTHIANS 13:10 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 1
“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.”
This is why I write these things when absent, so that when I come I may not have to be harsh in my use of the authority the Lord gave me — for building up and not for tearing down — Paul's *letters* are *therapeutic* rather than *punitive*. His *exousia*, authority, given by the *kyrios*, is *exclusively* for *oikodomen*, building up. *Harshness* would contradict apostolic purpose.
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