2 Corinthians 1:23 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn't come to Korint to spare you. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were immersed.
For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,
I tell the truth in Messiah. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit,
What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?
are to deliver such a one to Hasatan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Yeshua.
Sha'ul, an emissary of Messiah Yeshua through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Korint, with all the holy ones who are in the whole of Achaia:
Yes, I beg you that I may not, when present, show courage with the confidence with which I intend to be bold against some, who consider us to be walking according to the flesh.
As the truth of Messiah is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
The God and Father of the Lord Yeshua the Messiah, he who is blessed forevermore, knows that I don't lie.
For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don't desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;
For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down.
I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as when I was present the second time, so now, being absent, I write to those who have sinned before now, and to all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare;
in pureness, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,
Now about the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I'm not lying.
For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Messiah Yeshua.
For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),
of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I delivered to Hasatan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.