2 Corinthians 1:23 - 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. 更多版本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. English Standard Version 2016 But I call God to witness against me—it was to spare you that I refrained from coming again to Corinth. |
And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized.
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;
I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?
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.
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:
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.
As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.
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:
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.
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:
by pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:
of whom is Hymenæus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.