lso are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

(15)And in this confidence I was desirous to come to you before, that
ye might have a second benefit; (16)and to pass by you into Macedonia,
and from Macedonia to come again to you, and by you to be brought on
my way to Judea. (17)When therefore I purposed this, did I act with
levity? Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the
flesh, that with me there should be the yea, yea, and the nay, nay?
(18)But God is faithful, our word to you is not yea and nay. (19)For
the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, by me
and Silvanus and Timothy, was not made yea and nay, but has been made
yea in him. (20)For however many are the promises of God, in him is
the yea, and in him the Amen, to the glory of God through us. (21)Now
he who establishes us with you in Christ, and anointed us, is God;
(22)he who also sealed us, and gave the earnest of the Spirit in our
hearts.

(23)But I invoke God for a witness upon my soul, that to spare you I
came not yet to Corinth. (24)Not that we have dominion over your
faith, but are helpers of your joy; for in faith ye stand fast.

II.

AND I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you
in sorrow. (2)For if I make you sorry, who then is he that makes me
glad, but the same who is made sorry by me? (3)And I wrote this very
thing to you, that I might not, when I came, have sorrow from those of
whom I ought to have joy; having confidence in you all, that my joy is
the joy of you all. (4)For out of much affliction and anguish of heart
I wrote to you, with many tears; not that ye might have sorrow, but
that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly toward you.

(5)But if any has caused sorrow, he has not caused sorrow to me, but
in part (that I be not too severe on him) to you all. (6)Sufficient
for such a one is this punishment, which was inflicted by the many.
(7)So that, on the contrary, ye ought rather to forgive and console
him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch
sorrow. (8)Wherefore I beseech you to confirm your love toward him.

(9)For to this end also I wrote, that I might know the proof of you,
whether ye are obedient in all things. (10)To whom ye forgive
anything, I forgive also; for what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven
anything, for your sakes I forgave it in the person of Christ,
(11)that no advantage might be gained over us by Satan; for we are n