2 Corinthians 1:15-2 Corinthians 2:4 - Paul Delays His Visit To Corinth
15 And in this confidence was I minded the other time to have come unto you, that ye might have had yet one pleasure more, 16 and to have passed by you into Macedonia, and to have come again out of Macedonia unto you, and to have been led forth to Jewry ward of you. 17 When I thus wise was minded: Did I use lightness? Or think I carnally those things which I think, that with me should be "yea, yea," and "nay, nay?" 18 God is faithful: For our preaching unto you, was not "yea" and "nay." 19 For God's son Jesus Christ which was preached among you by us - that is to say, by me and Silvanus and Timothy - was not "yea" and "nay": but in him it was "Yea." 20 For all the promises of God, in him are "Yea": and are in him "Amen," unto the laud of God through us. 21 For it is God which establisheth us and you in Christ, and hath anointed us, 22 which hath also sealed us, and hath given the earnest of the spirit into our hearts.
23 I call God for a record unto my soul, that for to favor you withal, I came not any more unto Corinth. 24 Not that we be lords over your faith: but helpers of your joy. For by faith ye stand.
1 But I determined this in myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness. 2 For if I make you sorry: who is it that should make me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me? 3 And I wrote this same epistle unto you, lest if I came, I should take heaviness of them, of whom I ought to rejoice. Certainly this confidence have I in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all. 4 For in great affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears: not to make you sorry, but that ye might perceive the love which I have most specially unto you.