2 Corinthians 1:23

Paul solemnly calls God as witness that he stayed away from Corinth to spare them further pain. His change of plans was an act of mercy, not weakness.

Cross-references · 17

• Gal 1:20Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.
• 1 Cor 4:21What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?
• Rom 1:9For 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;
• 2 Cor 13:10Therefore 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.
• 2 Cor 13:2I 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:
• Phil 1:8For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
• 2 Cor 12:20For 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:
• 2 Cor 10:6–11And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
• 2 Cor 1:18But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.
• 2 Cor 10:2But 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.
• 2 Cor 11:31The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.
• Rom 9:1I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
• 2 Cor 2:1–3But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.
• 1 Cor 5:5To 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.
• 1 Th 2:5For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:
• 1 Tim 1:20Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.
• 2 Cor 11:11Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.

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