2Cor 1:15-16, 13:1-2 | ESV | STEP | Because I was sure of this , I wanted to come to you first , so that you might have a second experience of grace .

2 Corinthians 1:15-16

15 Because I was sure of this, ^aI wanted to come to you first, so that you might have ^ba second ^cexperience of grace. 16 I wanted to visit you ^don my way to Macedonia, and to come back to you from Macedonia and have you send me on my way to Judea.

2 Corinthians 13:1-2

Final Warnings

1 ^eThis is the third time I am coming to you. Every charge must be established ^fby the evidence of two or three witnesses. 2 ^gI warned ^hthose who sinned before and all the others, and I warn them now while absent, as I did when present on my second visit, that ⁱif I come again I will not spare them—