For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, so that we despaired even of life:

And in this confidence I purposed to come to you before, that ye might have a second benefit;

And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again from Macedonia to you, and by you to be brought on my way towards Judea.

Moreover, I call God for a witness upon my soul, that to spare you I have not as yet come to Corinth.

But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.

Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, and a door was opened to me by the Lord,

Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you;

For, when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.

Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.

For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not to you; for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ:

And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome to you, and so will I keep myself.

It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found by you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

And lest, when I come again, my God may humble me among you, and I shall bewail many who have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness, and lewdness, and lasciviousness, which they have committed.

I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them who heretofore have sinned, and to all others, that, if I come again, I will not spare;