We are not holding back [our affections] from you, but you are holding back your affections [from us].

I have kept nothing back from you, men of Corinth; I have opened my heart to you.

To pay me back, I tell you, my children, you must open your hearts too.

I was going to visit you on my way to Macedonia, and then to come back to you from Macedonia and have you see me off for Judea.

and that when I come back my God may humiliate me before you, and I may have to mourn over some of those who formerly have committed shocking sins, and have not repented for them -- their impurity, sexual immorality, and sensuality, which once they practiced.

I have already warned those who formerly committed shocking sins, and all the rest, and though so far away I warn them now, as I did on my second visit, that if I come back I will not spare them,