2 Corinthians 1:15-2 Corinthians 2:4 - Paul Delays His Visit To Corinth
15 It was because I entertained this confidence that I intended to visit you before going elsewhere--so that you might receive a twofold proof of God's favour-- 16 and to pass by way of Corinth into Macedonia. Then my plan was to return from Macedonia to you, and be helped forward by you to Judaea. 17 Did I display any vacillation or caprice in this? Or the purposes which I form--do I form them on worldly principles, now crying "Yes, yes," and now "No, no"? 18 As certainly as God is faithful, our language to you is not now "Yes" and now "No." 19 For Jesus Christ the Son of God--He who was proclaimed among you by us, that is by Silas and Timothy and myself--did not show Himself a waverer between "Yes" and "No." But it was and always is "Yes" with Him. 20 For all the promises of God, whatever their number, have their confirmation in Him; and for this reason through Him also our "Amen" acknowledges their truth and promotes the glory of God through our faith. 21 But He who is making us as well as you stedfast through union with the Anointed One, and has anointed us, is God, 22 and He has also set His seal upon us, and has put His Spirit into our hearts as a pledge and foretaste of future blessing.
23 But as for me, as my soul shall answer for it, I appeal to God as my witness, that it was to spare you pain that I gave up my visit to Corinth. 24 Not that we want to lord it over you in respect of your faith--we do, however, desire to help your joy--for in the matter of your faith you are standing firm.
1 But, so far as I am concerned, I have resolved not to have a painful visit the next time I come to see you. 2 For if I of all men give you pain, who then is there to gladden my heart, but the very persons to whom I give pain? 3 And I write this to you in order that when I come I may not receive pain from those who ought to give me joy, confident as I am as to all of you that my joy is the joy of you all. 4 For with many tears I write to you, and in deep suffering and depression of spirit, not in order to grieve you, but in the hope of showing you how brimful my heart is with love for you.