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Paul's Defense of His Integrity and Concern

2 Corinthians 1:12-2:4

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12 For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity from God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we conducted ourselves in the world, and even more abundantly toward you. 13 For we write no other things to you than what you read or even know relationally, but I hope that until the end you will know relationally. 14 just as you also recognized us in part, that we are your boast just as you also are ours on the day of our Lord Jesus. 15 And with this confidence, I wanted to come to you earlier, so that you might have a second grace. 16 and through you to pass through to Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and through you to be sent forward to Judea. 17 Therefore, when I intended this, did I use lightness? Or what I purpose according to the flesh, do I purpose it, so that with me it is "Yes, yes" and "No, no"? 18 But God is faithful, that our word to you is not "Yes and No." 19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was proclaimed among you through us—through me and Silvanus and Timothy—did not become yes and no, but in him yes has happened. 20 For as many promises of God as there are, in him is the Yes; therefore also through him is the Amen to God for glory through us. 21 Now the one who confirms us with you in Christ and has anointed us—God, 22 who has both sealed us and given the pledge of the Spirit in our hearts. 23 But I call God as witness upon my soul, that to spare you, I came no longer to Corinth. 24 Not that we lord it over your faith, but we are fellow workers for your joy, for you stand by faith.
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1 For I decided this for myself: not to come to you again in sorrow. 2 For if I grieve you, who then is the one making me glad if not the one being grieved by me? 3 And I wrote this very thing so that when I came I might not have sorrow from those from whom it was necessary for me to rejoice, having trusted in all of you that my joy is in all of you. 4 For out of much tribulation and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you might be grieved, but that you might know the love that I have more abundantly for you.