2 Corinthians 1:15-2 Corinthians 2:4 - Paul Delays His Visit To Corinth
15 And in this confidence I intended to come to you before, so that you might have a second benefit, 16 and to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia to you, and to be brought on my way toward Judea by you. 17 Then purposing this, did I indeed use lightness? Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose them according to the flesh, so that with me there should be yes, yes, and no, no? 18 But as God is true, our word toward you was not yes and no. 19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us; by me and Silas and Timothy; was not yes and no, but in Him was, yes! 20 For all the promises of God in Him are yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God by us. 21 But He confirming us and anointing us with you in Christ is God. 22 And He has sealed us and having given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
23 And I call God as witness to my soul that in order to spare you I have not yet come to Corinth. 24 Not that we have dominion over your faith, but we are helpers of your joy; for by faith you stand.
1 But I determined this within myself, that I would not come to you again in grief. 2 For if I make you sorry, who then is he who makes me glad, but the same who has been made sorry by me? 3 And I wrote this to you, lest when I came I should have sorrow from the ones of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all. 4 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.