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2 Corinthians 1:23

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23But qI call God to witness against me—it was rto spare you that I refrained from coming again to Corinth.

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Cross references

  1. q[Gal. 1:20]; See Rom. 1:9
  2. rch. 2:1, 3; See 1 Cor. 4:21

In other versions

NIVNew International Version (2011)

I call God as my witness—and I stake my life on it—that it was in order to spare you that I did not return to Corinth.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

I call on God as a witness, on my life, that it was to spare you that I did not come to Corinth.

NLTNew Living Translation

Now I call upon God as my witness that I am telling the truth. The reason I didn’t return to Corinth was to spare you from a severe rebuke.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

But I call upon God as witness against my life, that in order to spare you, I did not come again to Corinth.

KJV 1900King James Version

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