2 Corinthians 2:1

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2 Corinthians 2:1

But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.

I determined

That

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I determined

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

And the disciples, as any were prospered, determined each of them to send for ministry to those brothers who lived in Judea,

Therefore dissension and not a little disputation occurring by Paul and Barnabas, they appointed Paul and Barnabas and certain others of them to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.

For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

For as being absent in body but present in spirit, I indeed have judged already as though I were present concerning him who worked out this thing;

When I send Artemas to you, or Tychicus, hasten to come to me at Nicopolis, for I have determined to winter there.

That

For out of much trouble and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have more abundantly to you.

And I call God as witness to my soul that in order to spare you I have not yet come to Corinth.

For, indeed, coming into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but being troubled in every way, with fightings on the outside, and fears on the inside.

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;

Therefore I write these things while absent, lest being present I may not deal sharply with you according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for pulling down.

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