2 Corinthians 1:13-16

Paul's Change of Plans

13 For we are not writing to you anything other than what you read and acknowledge 1 and I hope you will fully acknowledge - 14 just as you did x partially acknowledge us - that y on the day of our Lord Jesus z you will boast of us as a we will boast of you.

15 Because I was sure of this, b I wanted to come to you first, so that you might have c a second d experience of grace. 16 I wanted to visit you e on my way to Macedonia, and to come back to you from Macedonia and have you send me on my way to Judea.

  1. Cross References
    2 Corinthians 2:5
    Now if anyone has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in some measure - not to put it too severely - to all of you.
  2. Cross References
    1 Corinthians 1:8
    Who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
  3. Cross References
    2 Corinthians 5:12
    We are not commending ourselves to you again but giving you cause to boast about us, so that you may be able to answer those who boast about outward appearance and not about what is in the heart.
    2 Corinthians 9:3
    But I am sending the brothers so that our boasting about you may not prove empty in this matter, so that you may be ready, as I said you would be.
  4. Cross References
    1 Corinthians 9:15
    But I have made no use of any of these rights, nor am I writing these things to secure any such provision. For I would rather die than have anyone deprive me of my ground for boasting.
    Philippians 2:16
    Holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.
    Philippians 4:1
    Therefore, my brothers, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm thus in the Lord, my beloved.
    1 Thessalonians 2:19 - 20
    For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not you?
  5. Cross References
    1 Corinthians 4:19
    But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I will find out not the talk of these arrogant people but their power.
  6. Cross References
    Acts 18:1 - 18
    After this Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.
  7. Cross References
    Romans 1:11
    For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you -
  8. Cross References
    Acts 19:21
    Now after these events Paul resolved in the Spirit to pass through Macedonia and Achaia and go to Jerusalem, saying, "After I have been there, I must also see Rome.
    1 Corinthians 16:5 - 7
    I will visit you after passing through Macedonia, for I intend to pass through Macedonia.
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