2 Corinthians 1:15-2 Corinthians 2:4 - Paul Delays His Visit To Corinth

¹⁵ And in this confidence I intended to go to you before, that you might have a second benefit; ¹⁶ and by you, to pass through into Macedonia, and to come again to you from Macedonia, and be conducted by you into Judea. ¹⁷ In forming this purpose, did I, therefore, behave with levity? or do I purpose what I purpose, according to the flesh, that there may be with me, yes yes, and no, no? ¹⁸ But God is true; for our preaching to you was not yes and no: ¹⁹ for the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, by me and Sylvanus and Timothy, was not yes and no, but in him was yes. ²⁰ For whatever promises of God there are, are in him yes, and in him amen, to the glory of God by us. ²¹ For he who establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us, is God, ²² who has also set his seal upon us, and given us the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

²³ But I call on God as a witness against my soul, that wishing to spare you, I did not go to Corinth; ²⁴ not that we are lords over your faith, but fellow- workers for your joy: for by faith you stand.

¹ But I determined this in myself, that with sorrow I would not again come to you: ² for if I cause you to grieve, who is he that makes me glad, but he that is made sorry by me? ³ And I wrote to you this very thing, that, on coming to you, I might not have sorrow from those from whom I ought to receive joy; because I have confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all. ⁴ For out of much affliction and distress of heart, I wrote to you with many tears: not that you might be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have more abundantly for you.