12 So this is our boast: Our consciences testify that we have conducted ourselves in the world (and even more so towards all of you) with purity and godly sincerity, not with worldly wisdom, but relying on God’s grace. 13 We’re not writing other ideas to you other than what you’re all reading. You’re also understanding it and I’m hoping that you’ll be able to understand it all the way through to the end 14 as you initially partially understood us. Then on the day when Master Yeshua returns, you’ll be able to boast about us just as we do about all of you.

15 Because of my confidence in that, I had wanted to visit you all so that you’d have a second taste of grace, 16 [ref]and to continue on to Macedonia and to stay again on the way back, and then to have you all help send me on my way to Yudea. 17 Was I just being light-headed when I hoped for that? Or what was I thinking? Was I just thinking in worldly ways where yes, I might, and at the same time, no, I might not? 18 But our message to you all hasn’t been both ‘yes’ and ‘no’, because God is faithful. 19 [ref]His son Yeshua Messiah who I’ve preached about to you all, as well as hearing it from Silas and Timothy, didn’t become ‘yes’ and ‘no’, but in him it’s become ‘yes’. 20 Concerning the many promises made by God, in Messiah they’re ‘yes’, and therefore through him the ‘Let it be so’, resulting in honour for God through us. 21 It’s God who commissioned us and who confirms you and us to Messiah, 22 and God also places his seal on us and places his spirit in our hearts.

23 I call on God as a witness for my soul that it was to spare you all that I didn’t come to Corinth. 24 Not that we are in any way the masters of your faith, but rather we are fellow-workers sharing in your happiness because you all stand in the faith.

2 So I made the decision myself not to make a sad visit to you, 2 because if I’m making you all upset, who would be left to cheer me up except for the people that I would’ve just upset? 3 So I wrote this same thing, so that when I came, I wouldn’t get your upsets when I should be being happy, having trusted in you all that my happiness is in you. 4 I wrote to you much difficulty and anguish in my heart and through many tears, not wanted to make you all upset, but rather so that you’d know how much love toward you all is much greater than all that.