2 Corinthians 1:23
But I call God for a witness upon my soul, that to spare you I forbare to come unto Corinth.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.
In Context
22who also sealed us, and gave us the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
24Not that we have lordship over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.
Cross References
Romans 1:9For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you, always in my prayers
1 Corinthians 4:21What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of meekness?
2 Corinthians 1:18But as God is faithful, our word toward you is not yea and nay.
2 Corinthians 10:2yea, I beseech you, that I may not when present shew courage with the confidence wherewith I count to be bold against some, which count of us as if we walked according to the flesh.
2 Corinthians 11:11Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
2 Corinthians 12:20For I fear, lest by any means, when I come, I should find you not such as I would, and should myself be found of you such as ye would not; lest by any means there should be strife, jealousy, wraths, factions, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults;
Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 1:16-24
Paul's Sincerity and Affliction. ( a. d. 57.) 15 And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit; 16 And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judæa. 17 When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay? 18 But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.… Read the whole commentary →