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

For whether we are beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we are sober, it is for your cause.

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;