12For this pride of ours is the testimony of our conscience that we lived in the world more excessively toward you in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God.13For we do not write other things to you, but only what you read or also come to know; and we hope that until the goal you will come to know.14Just as you also came to know us from a part, that we are your pride just as you also are ours in the day of our Lord Jesus.15And with this confidence I was planning before to come to you so that you might have a second grace.16And through you to pass through into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you and by you to be helped on the way into Judea.17Therefore, while planning this, I did not act in lightness, nor do I plan according to the flesh so that with me it should be yes yes and no no.18God is faithful that our word to you is not yes and no.19For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you through us—through me and Silvanus and Timothy—did not become yes and no, but in him it has become yes.20For as many as are the promises of God, in him is the yes; therefore also through him is the amen to God for glory through us.21Now the one who confirms us with you toward Christ and who anoints us is God.22And the one who seals us and gives the guarantee of the Spirit in our hearts.23I call upon God as witness upon my soul that, sparing you, I came no more to Corinth.24Not that we lord over your faith, but we are co-workers of your joy; for you stand in the faith.
Chapter 2
1For I judged this for myself: not to come to you again in grief.2For if I grieve you, then who is the one who celebrates me except the one who grieves because of me?3And I wrote this same thing so that, when I came, I would not have grief from those things that ought to have made me rejoice, having been persuaded about all of you that my joy is yours also.4For out of much pressure and anguish of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not to grieve you but to let you know the love that I have more excessively toward you.