2 Corinthians 1:15-2 Corinthians 2:4 - Paul Delays His Visit To Corinth
15 And in this confidence I wished to come to you before, that ye might have a second grace; 16 And by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia, to come to you, and by you to be sent forward to Judea. 17 Therefore I resolved this, much less did I use levity: or what I resolve, do I resolve according to the flesh, that there be with me yea, yea, and nay, nay 18 And God faithful, for our word to you was not yea or nay. 19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who proclaimed in you by us, by me, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but was yea in him. 20 Forasmuch as the solemn promises of God in him yea, and in him Amen, for glory to God by us. 21 And he making us firm with you in Christ, and having anointed us, is God; 22 Who also having sealed us, and given the pledge of the Spirit in our hearts.
23 And I call upon God a witness upon my soul, that, sparing you, I came no more to Corinth. 24 Not that we are masters of your faith, but we are aiders of your joy: for ye have stood in the faith.
1 And I determined this to myself, not to come to you again in sadness. 2 For if I grieve you, and who is he making me glad, except he being grieved by me 3 And I wrote this same to you lest, coming, I should have sadness from whom I ought to rejoice, trusting to you all, that mine is the joy of you all. 4 For out of much pressure and anxiety of heart I wrote to you through many tears; not that ye should be 'grieved, but that ye might know the love I have more abundantly towards you.