2 Corinthians 1:15-2 Corinthians 2:4 - Paul Delays His Visit To Corinth
15 And in this confidence I was intending to come unto you a second time, that ye might receive a second blessing; 16 and through you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia return unto you, and by you to be forwarded on my journey towards Judea. 17 Such then being my intention, did I indeed change it with levity? or the things which I purpose, do I purpose after the flesh, that with me there should be yea, yea, and nay, nay? 18 But as sure as God is true, our word to you was not yea and nay. 19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us??y me and Silvanus and Timotheus??as not yea and nay, but there was yea in him; 20 for all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, to the glory of God by us. 21 Now he that confirmeth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God; 22 who also hath put his seal upon us, and given us the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
23 But I appeal to God as a witness unto my soul, that to spare you I have not yet come to Corinth: 24 not that we have dominion over your faith, but are fellow-helpers of your joy; for by faith ye stand.
1 BUT I prescribed to myself this rule, not to come again to you with sorrow. 2 For if I make you sorry, who is he that maketh me glad, but he that is made sorrowful by me? 3 And I have written unto you for this very purpose, that I might not, when I come to you, have sorrow from those in whom I ought to rejoice, having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all. 4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears, not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly towards you.