Apostol § 132

Brethren, I have sent Timothy unto you, who is my beloved and faithful son in the Lord, who shall remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach everywhere in every Church. Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you. But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord wills, and I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power. For the Kingdom of God is not in word, but in power. What do you wish? Shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and a spirit of gentleness? It is commonly reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even named among the Gentiles; that one should have his father’s wife! And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you. For I indeed, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged, as though I were present, concerning him who has so done this deed. In the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, along with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.