2 Corinthians 1:23
Good News Translation
I call God as my witness--he knows my heart! It was in order to spare you that I decided not to go to Corinth.

New Revised Standard Version
But I call on God as witness against me: it was to spare you that I did not come again to Corinth.

Contemporary English Version
God is my witness that I stayed away from Corinth, just to keep from being hard on you.

New American Bible
But I call upon God as witness, on my life, that it is to spare you that I have not yet gone to Corinth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But I call God to witness upon my soul that to spare you, I came not any more to Corinth: not because we exercise dominion over your faith: but we are helpers of your joy. For in faith you stand.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But I call God to witness upon my soul that to spare you, I came not any more to Corinth: not because we exercise dominion over your faith: but we are helpers of your joy. For in faith you stand.

I call.

2 Corinthians 1:18 But God is faithful: for our preaching which was to you, was not, It is, and It is not.

2 Corinthians 11:11,31 Wherefore? Because I love you not? God knoweth it. . . .

Romans 1:9 For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make a commemoration of you:

Romans 9:1 I speak the truth in Christ: I lie not, my conscience bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost:

Galatians 1:20 Now the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I lie not.

Philippians 1:8 For God is my witness how I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 2:5 For neither have we used at any time the speech of flattery, as you know: nor taken an occasion of covetousness (God is witness):

that.

2 Corinthians 2:1-3:18 But I determined this with myself, to come to you again in sorrow. . . .

2 Corinthians 10:2,6-11 But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence wherewith I am thought to be bold, against some who reckon us as if we walked according to the flesh. . . .

2 Corinthians 12:20 For I fear lest perhaps, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found by you such as you would not. Lest perhaps contentions, envyings, animosities, dissensions, detractions, whisperings, swellings, seditions, be among you.

2 Corinthians 13:2,10 I have told before and foretell, as present and now absent, to them that sinned before and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare. . . .

1 Corinthians 4:21 What will you? Shall I come to you with a rod? Or in charity and in the spirit of meekness?

1 Corinthians 5:5 To deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Timothy 1:20 Of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander, whom I have delivered up to Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.

Context
Paul's Change of Plans
22Who also hath sealed us and given the pledge of the Spirit in our hearts. 23But I call God to witness upon my soul that to spare you, I came not any more to Corinth: not because we exercise dominion over your faith: but we are helpers of your joy. For in faith you stand. 240…
Cross References
Acts 18:1
After these things, departing from Athens, he came to Corinth.

Acts 18:8
And Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, with all his house. And many of the Corinthians hearing, believed and were baptized.

Romans 1:9
For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make a commemoration of you:

1 Corinthians 4:21
What will you? Shall I come to you with a rod? Or in charity and in the spirit of meekness?

2 Corinthians 1:1
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother: to the church of God that is at Corinth, with all the saints that are in all Achaia:

2 Corinthians 2:1
But I determined this with myself, to come to you again in sorrow.

2 Corinthians 2:3
And I wrote this same to you: that I may not, when I come, have sorrow upon sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice: having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

2 Corinthians 6:6
In chastity, in knowledge, in longsuffering, in sweetness, in the Holy Ghost, in charity unfeigned,

2 Corinthians 11:10
The truth of Christ is in me, that this glorying shall not be broken off in me in the regions of Achaia.

2 Corinthians 13:2
I have told before and foretell, as present and now absent, to them that sinned before and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare.

Galatians 1:20
Now the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I lie not.

2 Corinthians 1:22
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