2 Corinthians 1:23

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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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  • 1 Cor 4:21 : 21 What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and [in] the spirit of meekness?
  • Rom 1:9 : 9 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;
  • Gal 1:20 : 20 Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.
  • 2 Cor 13:2 : 2 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:
  • 2 Cor 13:10 : 10 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.
  • Rom 9:1 : 1 ¶ I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
  • Phil 1:8 : 8 For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
  • 1 Thess 2:5 : 5 For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God [is] witness:
  • 1 Tim 1:20 : 20 Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.
  • 1 Cor 5:5 : 5 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.
  • 2 Cor 1:18 : 18 But [as] God [is] true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.
  • 2 Cor 2:1-3 : 1 ¶ But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness. 2 For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me? 3 And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is [the joy] of you all.
  • 2 Cor 10:2 : 2 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.
  • 2 Cor 10:6-9 : 6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled. 7 ¶ Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he [is] Christ's, even so [are] we Christ's. 8 For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed: 9 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters. 10 For [his] letters, say they, [are] weighty and powerful; but [his] bodily presence [is] weak, and [his] speech contemptible. 11 Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such [will we be] also in deed when we are present.
  • 2 Cor 11:11 : 11 Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
  • 2 Cor 11:31 : 31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.
  • 2 Cor 12:20 : 20 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:

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