2 Corinthians 1:23-2:4

21st Century King James Version

²³ Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that it was to spare you that I came not as yet unto Corinth,

²⁴ not that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers for your joy. For by faith ye stand.

2 But I determined this within myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.

² For if I make you sorrowful, who is he then who maketh me glad, but the same who is made sorrowful by me?

³ And I wrote as I did unto you lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from those of whom I ought to rejoice, having confidence in you all that my joy is the joy of you all.

⁴ For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears, not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly for you.