And with this confidence, I was wanting to come to you previously, in order that you may have a second proof of my goodwill,

and through you to go to Macedonia, and to come to you again from Macedonia, and to be sent on my way by you to Judea.

But I call upon God [as] witness against my life, that [in order to] spare you, I did not come again to Corinth.

For I have decided this for myself, not to come to you again in sorrow.

Therefore if anyone [is] in Christ, [he is] a new creation; the old [things] have passed away; behold, new [things] have come.

Therefore "come out from their midst and be separate," says the Lord, "and do not touch what is unclean, and I will welcome you,

lest somehow if Macedonians should come with me and find you unprepared, we--{not to speak of you}--would be humiliated in connection with this project.

For if the one who comes proclaims another Jesus whom we have not proclaimed, or you receive a different spirit which you did not receive, or a different gospel which you did not accept, you put up with [it] well [enough]!

Behold, this third [time] I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden [to you]. For I am not seeking your possessions, but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

[I am afraid] lest [when I] come again my God will humiliate me {in your presence}, and I will grieve over many of those who sinned previously and have not repented because of their impurity and sexual immorality and licentiousness that they have practiced.

I have already said when was present the second time, and [although I] am absent now also say in advance to those who sinned previously and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare [anyone],