(2Co 10:2) “But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.”  People have a tendency to think a meek person is a weak person. Here they are being for-warned; it is not the case, begging them not to force his hand. The Lord wishes His children to live in peace, but that doesn’t mean sin is not to be dealt with among us.

(2Co 7:9) “Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.”  “…that ye might [not, “nothing”] receive damage…”: means there are spiritual and possibly physical judgments from ungodly actions among the local church.  The sad thing: if one is ignorant of the Scriptures, they many times don’t even realize that judgment has fallen – but it has. Example: the quails, (Psa_106:15) “And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.”