2 Corinthians 1:23

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2 Corinthians 1:23

Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.

I call

1 Thessalonians 2:5

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I call

But as God is true, our word toward you was not yes and no.

Why? Because I do not love you? God knows.

For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of His Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you

I tell the truth in Christ, I do not lie, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit,

And what I write to you, behold, before God, I do not lie.

For God is my witness how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

For neither at any time did we use flattering words, as you know, nor with pretense of covetousness; God is witness.

That

But I ask, not being present, that I may be bold with the confidence which I think to be daring against some, who thought of us as walking according to flesh.

For I fear, lest somehow coming I might not find you as I wish, and that I shall be found by you such as you might not wish; lest somehow there be strifes, envyings, angers, contentions, backbitings, whisperings, proud thoughts, tumults;

I told you before, and I say beforehand, as being present the second time and being absent now. I write to those who sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare.

What do you desire? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and the spirit of meekness?

to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Among these are Hymeneus and Alexander, whom I have delivered to Satan so that they may learn not to blaspheme.