Amos uses a plumb line to illustrate the need to be perfectly aligned with God. As I understand the plumb line, once crooked always crooked...once straight always straight. When we get out of line with God, everything is off. Here is the plumb line passage...
"This is what he showed me: The Lord was standing by a wall that had been built true to plumb, with a plumb line in his hand. And the LORD asked me, "What do you see, Amos?" "A plumb line," I replied. Then the Lord said, "Look, I am setting a plumb line among my people Israel; I will spare them no longer."
Paul speaks in terms of the "power of God" overcoming arrogant talk. He asks should I come with gentleness or a whip? Paul must have been tested by this group before to say such a thing. Here is the passage...
"Some of you have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you. But I will come to you very soon, if the Lord is willing, and then I will find out not only how these arrogant people are talking, but what power they have. For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power. What do you prefer? Shall I come to you with a whip, or in love and with a gentle spirit?"
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