2Cor 1:23, 2:1-3 | Family | STEP | I call God ; to witness the truth of what he said. To spare you ; to save them from that painful discipline which he might have found necessary, had he visited them in their disorderly state.

2 Corinthians 1:23

I call God; to witness the truth of what he said.

To spare you; to save them from that painful discipline which he might have found necessary, had he visited them in their disorderly state.

2 Corinthians 2:1-3

In heaviness; in grief and sorrow, as he must have done, had he visited Corinth before the disorders in the church to which he referred in his first epistle had been removed. If I make you sorry; a delicate way of saying that he has the strongest motives not to grieve any one of them, if he can possibly avoid it; since it is from the very person grieved that he looks for his comfort. Compare chap 2Co 1:14. I wrote this same; the admonitions contained in his first epistle.