2 Corintios 1:15

15 Y con esta confianza quise primero venir a vosotros, para que tuvierais una segunda gracia

2 Corintios 1:15 Meaning and Commentary

2 Corinthians 1:15

And in this confidence I was minded
Being fully persuaded of your affection for me, as having been instrumental in the conversion of many of you, and of your esteem of me as a faithful and upright minister of the word, and of your being my rejoicing in the day of Christ, I was desirous, and had determined, and so promised,

to come to you before;
when I sent my first epistle to you, or before now, or before I went into Macedonia; and what I now say was the sincere intention of my mind; I thought really to have done what I had such an inclination to: and my view in it was,

that you might have a second benefit;
the meaning of which according to some is, first by his letter to them, and then by his presence with them; or as others, one benefit when he should pass by them to Macedonia, and a second, when he should return to them from thence, according to the following verse; or rather, as the first benefit which they received from him, and under his ministry, was their conversion, so this second benefit may design their edification, and establishment in the faith, their growth in grace, and improvement in spiritual knowledge.

2 Corintios 1:15 In-Context

13 Porque no os escribimos otras cosas de las que leéis, o también conocéis; y espero que aun hasta el fin las conoceréis

14 como también en parte habéis conocido que somos vuestro regocijo, así como también vosotros el nuestro, en el día del Señor Jesús

15 Y con esta confianza quise primero venir a vosotros, para que tuvierais una segunda gracia

16 y por vosotros pasar a Macedonia, y de Macedonia venir otra vez a vosotros, y ser vuelto de vosotros a Judea

17 Así que, pretendiendo esto, ¿quizá de ligereza? O lo que pienso hacer, ¿lo pienso según la carne, para que haya de mí sí, sí y no, no