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I hope you will change your thinking, so I do not have to punish you when I come there.

1 Corinthians 4:18-21

So which do you prefer? Do you want me to come to you and punish you because you have not changed your ways, or shall I come to you and act lovingly and gently toward you because you have done what I told you to do?