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

¹⁵ And in this confidence I had a mind to come to you first, (that ye might have a second benefit,) and to pass by you into Macedonia; ¹⁶ and then to come to you again from Macedonia, and by you to be forwarded on my way to Judea. ¹⁷ Now when I intended this, was I chargeable with levity? or what I purpose, do I purpose from carnal motives, that with me there should be yea, yea, and then no, no? ¹⁸ But the faithful God, He knows, that our word to you was not yes and no. ¹⁹ For Jesus Christ the Son of God, who was preached among you by us, even by me, and Silvanus, and Timothy, was not yea and nay, ²⁰ but was yea in Him, (for all the promises of God are in Him yea, and in Him amen,) to the glory of God by us: ²¹ but He that establisheth us as well as you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God; who hath also sealed us, ²² and given us the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

²³ But I call God to witness on my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet to Corinth: ²⁴ not that we are lords over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.

¹ But I determined with myself, not to come to you again in grief: ² for if I grieve you, who is it that maketh me glad, but he that is grieved by me? ³ And I wrote this to you, that when I come I may not have grief from those of whom I ought to receive joy, being persuaded concerning all of you, that my joy is the joy of you all. ⁴ For through much affliction and distress of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not that ye might be grieved, but that ye might know the love with which I abound towards you.