13 For we write [a]none other things unto you, than that ye read or else that ye acknowledge, and I trust ye shall acknowledge unto the [b]end.

14 Even as ye have acknowledged us partly, that we are your [c]rejoicing, even as ye are ours, in the [d]day of our Lord Jesus.

15 And in this confidence was I minded first to come unto you, that ye might have had a [e]double grace,

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 1:13 He saith he writeth barely and simply: for he that writeth in colored sort, is rightly said to write otherwise than we read: and this he saith the Corinthians shall know and like of very well.
  2. 2 Corinthians 1:13 Perfectly.
  3. 2 Corinthians 1:14 Paul’s rejoicing in the Lord was, that he had won the Corinthians: and they themselves rejoiced that such an Apostle was their instructor, and taught them so purely and sincerely.
  4. 2 Corinthians 1:14 When he shall sit as judge.
  5. 2 Corinthians 1:15 Another benefit.

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