But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn’t come to Corinth to spare you.
Parallel translations
- KJV Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.
- BSB I call God as my witness that it was in order to spare you that I did not return to Corinth.
- NKJV Moreover I call God as witness against my soul, that to spare you I came no more to Corinth.
- NASB But I call God as witness to my soul, that it was to spare you that I did not come again to Corinth.
- NLT Now I call upon God as my witness that I am telling the truth. The reason I didn’t return to Corinth was to spare you from a severe rebuke.
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- Gal 1:20Now about the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I’m not lying.
- 1 Cor 4:21What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?
- Rom 1:9For 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,
- 2 Cor 13:10For 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.
- 2 Cor 13:2I 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;
- Phil 1:8For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.
- 2 Cor 12:20For 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;
- 2 Cor 10:6–11and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience will be made full.
- 2 Cor 1:18But as God is faithful, our word toward you was not “Yes and no.”
- 2 Cor 10:2Yes, 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.
- 2 Cor 11:31The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed forever more, knows that I don’t lie.
- Rom 9:1I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit,
- 2 Cor 2:1–3But I determined this for myself, that I would not come to you again in sorrow.
- 1 Cor 5:5are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
- 1 Th 2:5For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),
- 1 Tim 1:20of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I delivered to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.
- 2 Cor 11:11Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows.
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