2 Corinthians 1:23 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

But I call God for a witness upon my soul, that to spare you I forbare to come unto Corinth.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

But I call upon God as my soul's witness: it was to avoid hurting you that I refrained from coming to Corinth–

American Standard Version (1901)

But I call God for a witness upon my soul, that to spare you I forbare to come unto Corinth.

Common English Bible

I call on God as my witness—I didn’t come again to Corinth because I wanted to spare you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

But I call God as a witness to my soul, that I was lenient with you, in that I did not return to Corinth:

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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.

2 Corinthians 1:23 Cross References

Acts 18:1

After these things he departed from Athens, and 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, how unceasingly I make mention of you, always in my prayers

Romans 9:1

I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Ghost,

1 Corinthians 4:21

What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of meekness?

1 Corinthians 5:5

to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

2 Corinthians 1:1

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in the whole of Achaia:

2 Corinthians 1:18

But as God is faithful, our word toward you is not yea and nay.

2 Corinthians 10:2

yea, 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 11:10

As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this glorying in the regions of Achaia.

2 Corinthians 11:11

Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.

2 Corinthians 11:31

The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.

2 Corinthians 12:20

For 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;

2 Corinthians 13:10

For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not when present deal sharply, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for casting down.

2 Corinthians 13:2

I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as when I was present the second time, so now, being absent, to them that have sinned heretofore, and to all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare;

2 Corinthians 6:6

in pureness, in knowledge, in longsuffering, in kindness, in the Holy Ghost, in love unfeigned,

Galatians 1:20

Now touching the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.

Philippians 1:8

For God is my witness, how I long after you all in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

1 Thessalonians 2:5

For neither at any time were we found using words of flattery, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness, God is witness;

1 Timothy 1:20

of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I delivered unto Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.