Бога призываю во свидетели на душу мою, что, щадя вас, я доселе не приходил в Коринф,
Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.
But I call God as witness to my soul, that to spare you I did not come again to Corinth.
But I call God to witness against me — it was to spare you that I refrained from coming again to Corinth.
I call God as my witness — and I stake my life on it — that it was in order to spare you that I did not return to Corinth.
Moreover I call God as witness against my soul, that to spare you I came no more to Corinth.
Now I call upon God as my witness that I am telling the truth. The reason I didn’t return to Corinth was to spare you from a severe rebuke.
But I call God to witness upon my soul that to spare you I have not yet come to Corinth.