2 Corinthians 1:15-2 Corinthians 2:4 - Paul Delays His Visit To Corinth

¹⁵ And in this confidence I was minded to come to you before, that ye might have had a second benefit, And to pass by you into Macedonia, ¹⁶ and to come to you again from Macedonia, and to be brought forward by you in my way toward Judea. ¹⁷ Now when I was thus minded, did I use levity? or the things which I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, so that there should be with me yea and nay? ¹⁸ As God is faithful, our word to you hath not been yea and nay. ¹⁹ For Jesus Christ the Son of God, who was preached among you by us, by me, and Silvanus, and Timotheus was not yea and nay; but was yea in him. ²⁰ For all the promises of God are yea in him, and amen in him, to the glory of God by us. ²¹ For he that establisheth us with you in Christ, and that hath anointed us is God: ²² Who hath also sealed us, and given us the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

²³ But I call God for a record on my soul, that to spare you, I came not as yet to Corinth. ²⁴ Not that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy; for by faith ye have stood.

¹ But I determined this with myself not to come to you again in grief. ² For if I grieve you, who is he that cheareth me, but he that is grieved by me? ³ And I wrote thus to you, that I might not when I come have grief from those for whom I ought to rejoice; being persuaded concerning you all, that my joy is the joy of you all. ⁴ For from much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that ye might be grieved, but that ye might know the abundant love which I have toward you.