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

1 Corinthians 4:18-21

18 Some of you have become proud, thinking that I will not come there to rebuke your congregation about what they are doing. 19 But if the Lord wants me to come, I will come to you soon. Then I will not pay any attention to what those proud people say. Instead, I will find out whether they have God’s power. 20 Remember that God judges whether or not we are letting him rule our lives, not by listening to how we talk, but by seeing whether his power is present ◄among us/in our lives►. 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?