²³ Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.

2 But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.

² I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:

¹⁰ Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.