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 you might have a second benefit, 16 and to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again from Macedonia to you, and by you to be sent forward to Judea. 17 Wishing this therefore, did I use lightness? or what I wish do I wish according to the flesh, that with me there may be the yes, yes, and the no, no? 18 But as God is faithful, our word to you was not yes and no. 19 For Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who was preached among you by us, by me and Silvanus and Timothy, was not yes and no, but was yes in him; 20 for all the promises of God, the yes in him, and the Amen in him, are for glory to God by us. 21 And he that establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us, is God, 22 who has also sealed us and given us the pledge of the Spirit in our hearts.
23 But I call God to witness on my soul, that to spare you I have not yet come to Corinth. 24 Not that we are lords of your faith, but co-laborers of your joy; for you stand firm by the faith.
1 But I determined this with myself, not to come again to you in sorrow; 2 for if I grieve you, who is he that gladdens me, but he that is grieved by me? 3 And I wrote the same to you that coming I might not have sorrow for those in whom I ought to have joy, having trusted in you all that my joy is the joy of you all. 4 For I wrote to you in much affliction and distress of mind with many tears, not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have abundantly for you.