Bible verse
Confident of this, I planned to visit you first, so that you might receive a double blessing.
2 Corinthians 1:15 · BSB
The verses around it, from 2 Corinthians 1.
11 as you help us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the favor shown us in answer to their prayers.
12 And this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in relation to you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God—not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God.
13 For we do not write you anything that is beyond your ability to read and understand. And I hope that you will understand us completely,
14 as you have already understood us in part, so that you may boast of us just as we will boast of you in the day of our Lord Jesus.
15 Confident of this, I planned to visit you first, so that you might receive a double blessing.
16 I wanted to visit you on my way to Macedonia, and to return to you from Macedonia, and then to have you help me on my way to Judea.
17 When I planned this, did I do it carelessly? Or do I make my plans by human standards, so as to say “Yes, yes” when I really mean “No, no”?
18 But as surely as God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes” and “No.”
19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was proclaimed among you by me and Silvanus and Timothy, was not “Yes” and “No,” but in Him it has always been “Yes.”
KJV
And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit;
ASV
And in this confidence I was minded to come first unto you, that ye might have a second benefit;
ERV
And in this confidence I was minded to come before unto you, that ye might have a second benefit;
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