And Crispus, the synagogue ruler, was believing the Lord along with all his household. And hearing, many of the Corinthians were believing and were being baptized.
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, and Timothy the brother, to the assembly of God being in Corinth, with all the saints being in all Achaia,
but I ask, not being present, that I may be bold with the confidence which I think to be bold gainst some, the ones reckoning us as walking according to flesh.
For I fear lest somehow, coming, I not find you as I wish, and I be found by you such as you do not wish; lest somehow there be strifes, envyings, angers, intrigues, evil speakings, slanders, puffings up, disturbances;
Because of this, I write these things while absent, that being present I may not deal severelywith you according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up and not for destruction.
I said before, and I say beforehand, as being present the second time and being absent now, I write to the ones having sinned before, and all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare,