And in this confidence I intended to come to you before, so that you might have a second benefit,

and to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia to you, and to be brought on my way toward Judea by you.

And I call God as witness to my soul that in order to spare you I have not yet come to Corinth.

But I determined this within myself, that I would not come to you again in grief.

then we are confident and we are pleased rather to go away from home out of the body, and to come home to the Lord.

Therefore come out from among them and be separated, says the Lord, and do not touch the unclean thing. And I will receive you

I say this lest perhaps Macedonians should come with me and find you unprepared. We (not to say you) would then be put to shame in this confident boasting.

For I judge myself to have come behind the highest apostles in nothing.

Indeed, it is not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

Behold, a third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not burden you, for I do not seek your things, but you. For the children ought not to lay up treasure for the parents, but the parents for the children.

I told you before, and I say beforehand, as being present the second time and being absent now. I write to those who sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare.