2 Corinthians 13:9-11

American Standard Version

⁹ For we rejoice, when we are weak, and ye are strong: this we also pray for, even your perfecting. ¹⁰ For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not when present deal sharply, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for casting down.

¹¹ Finally, brethren, ^[a]farewell. Be perfected; be comforted; be of the same mind; live in peace: and the God of love and peace shall be with you.