2 Corinthians 1:23
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23Now, are you ready for the real reason I didn’t visit you in Corinth? As God is my witness, the only reason I didn’t come was to spare you pain. I was being considerate of you, not indifferent, not manipulative.
Copyright 2005 Eugene H. Peterson.
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
But I call God to witness against me—it was to spare you that I refrained from coming again to Corinth.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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