2 Corinthians 1:23
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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.

I call.

2 Corinthians 1:18 But God is faithful: for our preaching which was to you, was not, It is, and It is not.

2 Corinthians 11:11,31 Wherefore? Because I love you not? God knoweth it. . . .

Romans 1:9 For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make a commemoration of you:

Romans 9:1 I speak the truth in Christ: I lie not, my conscience bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost:

Galatians 1:20 Now the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I lie not.

Philippians 1:8 For God is my witness how I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 2:5 For neither have we used at any time the speech of flattery, as you know: nor taken an occasion of covetousness (God is witness):

that.

2 Corinthians 2:1-3:18 But I determined this with myself, to come to you again in sorrow. . . .

2 Corinthians 10:2,6-11 But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence wherewith I am thought to be bold, against some who reckon us as if we walked according to the flesh. . . .

2 Corinthians 12:20 For I fear lest perhaps, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found by you such as you would not. Lest perhaps contentions, envyings, animosities, dissensions, detractions, whisperings, swellings, seditions, be among you.

2 Corinthians 13:2,10 I have told before and foretell, as present and now absent, to them that sinned before and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare. . . .

1 Corinthians 4:21 What will you? Shall I come to you with a rod? Or in charity and in the spirit of meekness?

1 Corinthians 5:5 To deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Timothy 1:20 Of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander, whom I have delivered up to Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.

Context
Paul's Change of Plans
22Who also hath sealed us and given the pledge of the Spirit in our hearts. 23But 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. 240…
Cross References
Acts 18:1
After these things, departing from Athens, he came to Corinth.

Acts 18:8
And Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, with all his house. And many of the Corinthians hearing, believed and were baptized.

Romans 1:9
For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make a commemoration of you:

1 Corinthians 4:21
What will you? Shall I come to you with a rod? Or in charity and in the spirit of meekness?

2 Corinthians 1:1
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother: to the church of God that is at Corinth, with all the saints that are in all Achaia:

2 Corinthians 2:1
But I determined this with myself, to come to you again in sorrow.

2 Corinthians 2:3
And I wrote this same to you: that I may not, when I come, have sorrow upon sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice: having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

2 Corinthians 6:6
In chastity, in knowledge, in longsuffering, in sweetness, in the Holy Ghost, in charity unfeigned,

2 Corinthians 11:10
The truth of Christ is in me, that this glorying shall not be broken off in me in the regions of Achaia.

2 Corinthians 13:2
I have told before and foretell, as present and now absent, to them that sinned before and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare.

Galatians 1:20
Now the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I lie not.

Lexicon
I
Ἐγὼ (Egō)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative 1st Person Singular
Strong's Greek 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

call
ἐπικαλοῦμαι (epikaloumai)
Verb - Present Indicative Middle - 1st Person Singular
Strong's Greek 1941: (a) To call (name) by a supplementary (additional, alternative) name, (b) mid: To call upon, appeal to, address.

God
Θεὸν (Theon)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.

as
ἐπὶ (epi)
Preposition
Strong's Greek 1909: On, to, against, on the basis of, at.

my
ἐμὴν (emēn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative Feminine 1st Person Singular
Strong's Greek 1699: My, mine. From the oblique cases of ego; my.

witness
μάρτυρα (martyra)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 3144: A witness (judicially) or figuratively (genitive case); by analogy, a 'martyr'.

that [it was in order]
ὅτι (hoti)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 3754: Neuter of hostis as conjunction; demonstrative, that; causative, because.

to spare
φειδόμενος (pheidomenos)
Verb - Present Participle Middle or Passive - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 5339: To spare, abstain, forbear. Of uncertain affinity; to be chary of, i.e. to abstain or to treat leniently.

you
ὑμῶν (hymōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

[that] I did not return
ἦλθον (ēlthon)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular
Strong's Greek 2064: To come, go.

to
εἰς (eis)
Preposition
Strong's Greek 1519: A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases.

Corinth.
Κόρινθον (Korinthon)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's Greek 2882: Corinthus, a city of Greece.


Additional Translations
I call God as my witness that it was in order to spare you that I did not return to Corinth.

But I call God as witness upon my soul, that sparing you, I have not yet come to Corinth.

Moreover I call God for a record on my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet to Corinth.

But I call God for a witness upon my soul, that to spare you I forbare to come unto Corinth.

But I call God to witness upon my soul that to spare you I have not yet come to Corinth.

But I call God for a witness upon my soul, that to spare you I forbare to come unto Corinth.

Moreover, I call God for a witness upon my soul, that to spare you I have not as yet come to Corinth.

But as for me, as my soul shall answer for it, I appeal to God as my witness, that it was to spare you pain that I gave up my visit to Corinth.

But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn't come to Corinth to spare you.

And I for a witness on God do call upon my soul, that sparing you, I came not yet to Corinth;
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