"Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth."
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I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.
But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.
But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.
And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.
For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:
Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.
I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:
Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.
For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;
What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?
Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.
But God is my witness that it was in pity for you that I did not come to Corinth at that time.
But I call God to witness upon my soul that to spare you I have not yet come to Corinth.
Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.
Moreover, I call God for a witness upon my soul, that to spare you I have not as yet come to Corinth.
But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn't come to Corinth to spare you.
And I for a witness on God do call upon my soul, that sparing you, I came not yet to Corinth;