Some have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you.

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

but when what is perfect comes, the partial will be set aside.

But someone will say, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?”

But I will come to you after I have gone through Macedonia – for I will be going through Macedonia –

And with this confidence I intended to come to you first so that you would get a second opportunity to see us,

So I made up my own mind not to pay you another painful visit.

It is necessary to go on boasting. Though it is not profitable, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord.

Afterward I went to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.

And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near,

though I am confident in the Lord that I too will be coming to see you soon.

For you know quite well that the day of the Lord will come in the same way as a thief in the night.

since he wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.

I hope to come to you soon, but I am writing these instructions to you

Until I come, give attention to the public reading of scripture, to exhortation, to teaching.

Such women are always seeking instruction, yet never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.

For just a little longer and he who is coming will arrive and not delay.

I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have so that no one can take away your crown.

Then he came and took the scroll from the right hand of the one who was seated on the throne,

For I too am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I say to this one, ‘Go’ and he goes, and to another ‘Come’ and he comes, and to my slave ‘Do this’ and he does it.”