2 Corinthians 2:1

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

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.

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.

What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?

When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to come unto me to Nicopolis: for I have determined there to winter.

Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judaea:

For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,

When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and e...

For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.