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

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I determined

And in this confidence I had a mind to come to you first, (that ye might have a second benefit,) and to pass by you into Macedonia;

And each of the disciples, according to his ability, determined to send relief to the brethren who dwelt in Judea.

A dissension therefore arising, and Paul and Barnabas having no small dispute with them, it was resolved that Paul and Barnabas, and some others, should go up to the apostles and elders at Jerusalem about this question.

for I did not think it meet to know any thing among you, but Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.

For I indeed, absent in body, but present in spirit, have already, as if I were present, judged him who hath wrought this wickedness: in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

When I shall send Artemas to thee, or Tychicus, endeavour to come to me to Nicopolis: for there I have determined to winter.

That

For through much affliction and distress of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not that ye might be grieved, but that ye might know the love with which I abound towards you.

But I call God to witness on my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet to Corinth:

For when we came into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were afflicted on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.

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,

Therefore I write these things while absent, that when present I may not use severity, according to the power which the Lord hath given me for edification, and not for destruction.

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