2 Corinthians 1:23

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐγὼ δὲ μάρτυρα τὸν Θεὸν ἐπικαλοῦμαι ἐπὶ τὴν ἐμὴν ψυχήν, ὅτι φειδόμενος ὑμῶν οὐκέτι ἦλθον εἰς Κόρινθον.

Transliteration

But I martyra the Theon epikaloumai upon my psychēn, that pheidomenos you no longer I ēlthon to Korinthon.

Grammar Details

*martyra*: accusative, masculine, singular - witness
*Theon*: accusative, masculine, singular - God
*epikaloumai*: present indicative, middle, 1st person singular - I call upon
*psychēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - soul/life
*pheidomenos*: present participle, middle, nominative, masculine, singular - sparing
*ēlthon*: aorist indicative, active, 1st person singular - I came/went
*Korinthon*: accusative, feminine, singular - Corinth (place name)

Word Meanings

*martyra*: witness/one who testifies
*epikaloumai*: I call upon/invoke/summon
*psychēn*: soul/life/self
*pheidomenos*: sparing/forbearing/being merciful to
*ēlthon*: I came/went/arrived

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Referenced Verses

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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