2 Corinthians 1:21-23

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

²¹ But it is God who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us, ²² by putting his seal on us and giving us his Spirit in our hearts as a first instalment.

²³ But I call on God as witness against me: it was to spare you that I did not come again to Corinth.