2 Corinthians 1:15-2 Corinthians 2:4 - Paul Delays His Visit To Corinth
15 In this confidence I was willing to come to you first that you might have a second benefit. 16 To pass by you to Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be helped by you on my journey to Judea. 17 When I planned this was I unfaithful? Or in other things do I perform according to the flesh. With me should there be a yes or a no? 18 But as God is faithful, our word toward you is not yes and no. 19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we, preached among you even by me and Silvanus and Timothy, was not yes and no, but in him is yes. 20 All the promises of God in him are yes. Also in his is the Amen, to the glory of God through us. 21 He who establishes us with you in Christ, and anointed us, is God. 22 He also sealed us, and gave us the guarantee of the Spirit in our hearts.
23 But I call God for a witness against me. To spare you I did not come to Corinth. 24 We do not control your faith. We are fellow workers for your joy: for you stand fast in faith.
1 I decided this for myself that I would not come again to you with sorrow. 2 For if I make you sad, who then makes me glad? It is the same one whom I made sad. 3 I wrote this very thing that when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice. I have 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 to you with many tears. Not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have more abundantly for you.