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 the faithful God, He knows, that our word to you was not yes and no.

Wherefore? because I love you not?

for God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how incessantly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

I say the truth in Christ, I lye not, (my conscience bearing me witness in the holy Ghost,)

(Now in what I write to you, behold, before God, I do not lie.)

For God is my witness, how much I long for you all, as with the bowels of Jesus Christ.

For neither at any time used we flattering speech, as ye know, nor covetous pretence, God is witness:

That

but being absent am bold towards you, yea I intreat you, that I may not be bold, when I am present, with that confidence, wherewith I think to proceed against some, who censure us as walking after the flesh.

For I am afraid least when I come, I should not find you such as I could wish, and I should be found to you such as ye would not: least there should be contentions, emulations, animosities, strifes, thwartings, whisperings, swellings, tumults: and least,

I said before, and I again tell you beforehand, as if I were present the second time; and being absent I now write to those who have sinned heretofore, and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare:

What do ye chuse? that I should come to you with a rod? or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?

of our Lord Jesus Christ, to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. Your boasting is not good.

of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander, whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.