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Paul’s Change of Plans
Now this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in our relations with you, with integrity and godly sincerity. We have done so, relying not on worldly wisdom but on God’s grace.
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Was I fickle when I intended to do this? Or do I make my plans in a worldly manner so that in the same breath I say both “Yes, yes” and “No, no”?
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Unlike so many, we do not peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, as those sent from God.
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Such confidence we have through Christ before God.
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For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.
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So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.
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that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.
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I do not say this to condemn you; I have said before that you have such a place in our hearts that we would live or die with you.
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Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.
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So even though I wrote to you, it was neither on account of the one who did the wrong nor on account of the injured party, but rather that before God you could see for yourselves how devoted to us you are.
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I beg you that when I come I may not have to be as bold as I expect to be toward some people who think that we live by the standards of this world.
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For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does.
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The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.
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Since many are boasting in the way the world does, I too will boast.
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I am afraid that when I come again my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of the impurity, sexual sin and debauchery in which they have indulged.
