And in this confidence I wished to come to you before, that you might have a second benefit,

and to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again from Macedonia to you, and by you to be sent forward to Judea.

But I call God to witness on my soul, that to spare you I have not yet come to Corinth.

But I determined this with myself, not to come again to you in sorrow;

lest if the Macedonians should come with me and find you unprepared, we, not to say you, should be ashamed of this confidence.

But we will not boast of things not measured, but according to the measure of the rule which God has given us, to come even to you.

For we do not stretch ourselves out too far, as if we had not come to you, for we came even to you with the gospel of Christ;

For if he that comes preaches another Jesus whom we did not preach, or you receive another spirit which you did not receive, or another gospel which you did not receive, you might well bear it;

Besides things without, that which comes upon me daily, the care of all the churches.

It is not expedient therefore for me to boast [of these things]; for I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

Behold, I am ready to come to you a third time, and I will not be burdensome to you; for I seek not yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up treasure for the parents, but the parents for the children.

For I fear lest when I come I shall not find you such as I wish, and that I shall be found such as you wish not; lest there shall be strife, envy, anger, contentions, evil speakings, whisperings, pride, dissensions;

lest when I come again my God shall humble me before you, and I shall mourn for many who have sinned, and not changed their minds, in respect to impurity and fornication and lewdness which they have committed.

I have said before, and I now foretell as if present a second time, although absent, to those who have already sinned and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare;