2 Corintios 13:10

10 Por esta razón os escribo estas cosas estando ausente, a fin de que cuando esté presente no tenga que usar de severidad según la autoridad que el Señor me dio para edificación y no para destrucción.

2 Corintios 13:10 Meaning and Commentary

2 Corinthians 13:10

Therefore I write these things being absent
Assuring them of his power and authority, expressing his concern for their welfare, earnestly desiring that they might be kept from evil, and perform good works; and that they might be in a more honourable, orderly, and comfortable situation, whilst he was absent from them, and before he came among them:

lest, being present, I should use sharpness;
meaning severe reproofs and censures, or rather the exercise of the apostolic rod:

according to the power the Lord haft given me, to edification, and
not to destruction;
by striking persons dead, as Ananias and Sapphira were by Peter; or by delivering them up to Satan to have corporeal punishment inflicted on them, as were Hymenaeus and Philetus, and the incestuous person by the Apostle Paul; which, though it was for the destruction of the flesh, yet for the salvation of their souls, and for the good, use, and edification of the rest of the society, that they might take warning thereby, and shun the evils which were the occasion of such severity.

2 Corintios 13:10 In-Context

8 Porque nada podemos hacer contra la verdad, sino sólo a favor de la verdad.

9 Pues nos regocijamos cuando nosotros somos débiles, pero vosotros sois fuertes; también oramos por esto, para que vosotros seáis hechos perfectos.

10 Por esta razón os escribo estas cosas estando ausente, a fin de que cuando esté presente no tenga que usar de severidad según la autoridad que el Señor me dio para edificación y no para destrucción.

11 Por lo demás, hermanos, regocijaos, sed perfectos, confortaos, sed de un mismo sentir, vivid en paz; y el Dios de amor y paz será con vosotros.

12 Saludaos los unos a los otros con beso santo.