2 Corinthians 1:15-2 Corinthians 2:4 - Paul Delays His Visit To Corinth
15 in this confidence I purposed to visit you before now, (that you might have again the like satisfaction) 16 not to call upon you as I pass into Macedonia, but in my return from thence, to be conducted by you toward Judea. 17 was this design therefore the effect of levity? or do I design first one thing, and then another, as it best suits my worldly interest? 18 God is my witness, I never prevaricated with you. 19 for what I, and Timothy, and Silvanus preached concerning Jesus Christ, the son of God, is not inconsistent, but invariably the same. 20 for all the promises of God do center in him, and are verifyed by him to the glory of God by our preaching. 21 now it is God who keeps you fix'd in the doctrine of Christ; who has appointed me, 22 and mark'd me with his seal, and given me the earnest of the spirit in my heart.
23 I call God to witness, and may I die if it is not true, that the reason of my not coming yet to Corinth, was to avoid using any severity towards you. 24 not that I would arbitrarily prescribe what you should believe, but rather encourage you to go on: for 'tis by faith you have stood.
1 But I purposed in my self, I would not be the occasion of any uneasiness to you when I come again. 2 why should I make you uneasy, for who then could give me comfort, but those to whom I give uneasiness? 3 and I wrote to you upon that disagreeable subject, that when I came, I might not receive uneasiness from those from whom I ought to receive comfort, being persuaded that you will all think yourselves interested to promote my satisfaction. 4 for out of much affliction and anguish of heart, I wrote to you with many tears; not to make you uneasy, but to make you sensible of the overflowing tenderness which I have for you.