I planned with this confidence to come to you first, so you could have a double benefit,

and to go on to Macedonia with your help, then come to you again from Macedonia and be given a start by you on my journey to Judea.

For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us—by me and Silvanus and Timothy—did not become “Yes and no”; on the contrary, a final “Yes” has come in Him.

I call on God as a witness, on my life, that it was to spare you that I did not come to Corinth.

In fact, I made up my mind about this: I would not come to you on another painful visit.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away, and look, new things have come.

Therefore, come out from among them
and be separate, says the Lord;
do not touch any unclean thing,
and I will welcome you.

For if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we, not to mention you, would be embarrassed in that situation.

For we are not overextending ourselves, as if we had not reached you, since we have come to you with the gospel of Christ.

For if a person comes and preaches another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or you receive a different spirit, which you had not received, or a different gospel, which you had not accepted, you put up with it splendidly!

Now I am ready to come to you this third time. I will not burden you, for I am not seeking what is yours, but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

I urged Titus to come, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus take advantage of you? Didn’t we walk in the same spirit and in the same footsteps?

For I fear that perhaps when I come I will not find you to be what I want, and I may not be found by you to be what you want; there may be quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.

I fear that when I come my God will again humiliate me in your presence, and I will grieve for many who sinned before and have not repented of the moral impurity, sexual immorality, and promiscuity they practiced.

I gave a warning when I was present the second time, and now I give a warning while I am absent to those who sinned before and to all the rest: If I come again, I will not be lenient,