2 Corinthians 1:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²³ But I call on God as witness against me: it was to spare you that I did not come again to Corinth.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ 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

²³ 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)

²³ But I call God for a witness upon my soul, that to spare you I forbare to come unto Corinth.

Common English Bible

²³ I call on God as my witness—I didn’t come again to Corinth because I wanted to spare you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ 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

²³ 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 this Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.

Acts 18:8

Crispus, the official of the synagogue, became a believer in the Lord, together with all his household, and many of the Corinthians who heard Paul became believers and were baptized.

Romans 1:9

For God, whom I serve with my spirit by announcing the gospel of his Son, is my witness that without ceasing I remember you always in my prayers,

Romans 9:1

I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience confirms it by the Holy Spirit—

1 Corinthians 4:21

What would you prefer? Am I to come to you with a stick or with love in a spirit of gentleness?

1 Corinthians 5:5

you are to hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

2 Corinthians 1:1

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God that is in Corinth, together with all the saints throughout Achaia:

2 Corinthians 1:18

As surely as God is faithful, our word to you is not “Yes and No.”

2 Corinthians 10:2

I ask that when I am present I need not show boldness by daring to oppose those who think we are acting according to human standards.

2 Corinthians 11:10

As the truth of Christ is in me, this boast of mine will not be silenced in the regions of Achaia.

2 Corinthians 11:11

And why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!

2 Corinthians 11:31

The God and Father of the Lord Jesus (blessed be he forever!) knows that I do not lie.

2 Corinthians 12:20

For I fear that when I come I may find you not as I wish and that you may find me not as you wish; I fear that there may perhaps be quarreling, jealousy, anger, selfishness, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.

2 Corinthians 13:10

So I write these things while I am away from you, so that when I come I may not have to be severe in using the authority that the Lord has given me for building up and not for tearing down.

2 Corinthians 13:2

I warned those who sinned previously and all the others, and I warn them now while absent, as I did when present on my second visit, that if I come again I will not be lenient—

2 Corinthians 6:6

in purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, holiness of spirit, genuine love,

Galatians 1:20

In what I am writing to you, before God, I do not lie!

Philippians 1:8

For God is my witness, how I long for all of you with the tender affection of Christ Jesus.

1 Thessalonians 2:5

As you know and as God is our witness, we never came with words of flattery or with a pretext for greed,

1 Timothy 1:20

among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have turned over to Satan, so that they may be taught not to blaspheme.