15In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit;


In Context

12 For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

13 For we write no other things to you, than what you read or even acknowledge, and I hope you will acknowledge to the end;

14 as also you acknowledged us in part, that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

15 In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit;

16 and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be sent forward by you on my journey to Judea.

17 When I therefore was thus determined, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the |Yes, yes| and the |No, no?|

2 Corinthians 1:15 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:15And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit;

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

1:15Because I was confident of this, I planned to visit you first so that you might benefit twice.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:15And with this confidence I purposed to come to you previously, that ye might have a second favour;

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:15And in this confidence I had a mind to come to you before, that you might have a second grace:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:15And in this confidence I was minded to come first unto you, that ye might have a second benefit;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:15And in this confidence I was minded to come before unto you, that ye might have a second benefit;

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:15And in this confidence I purposed to come to you before, that ye might have a second benefit;

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:15and in this confidence I was purposing to come unto you before, that a second favour ye might have,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:15And in this confidence I was minded to come to you before, that you might have a second benefit;