2 Corinthians 1 in the early church

202 passages quote, allude to, or echo 2 Corinthians 1, grouped by verse; passages on the same verse are in date order. Verse text from the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). References use the Protestant English Bible's numbering, with a writer's own numbering in brackets where it differs.

Verses: 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 9 · 10 · 11 · 12 · 13 · 14 · 15 · 16 · 17 · 18 · 19 · 20 · 21 · 22 · 23 · 24

2 Corinthians 1 as a whole

Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
2 Cor 1–2Cor:13	Canon 60 · Anonymous	allusion, high confidence	ca. 343–381
2 Cor 1–2Cor:13	Canon 47 · Anonymous	allusion, high confidence	397

2 Corinthians 1:1

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God in Corinth, together with all the saints throughout Achaia:
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
2 Cor 1:1	Lines 51–60 · Anonymous	allusion, high confidence	late 2nd or 4th century (disputed)
2 Cor 1:1	Commentary on Matthew 14.1 · Origen	allusion, high confidence	ca. 246–248
2 Cor 1:1	Commentary on Ephesians 1.1 · Marius Victorinus	quotation, high confidence	ca. 360–363
2 Cor 1:1	Commentary on 2 Corinthians 1:1 · Ambrosiaster	quotation, high confidence	ca. 366–384

2 Corinthians 1:2

Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
2 Cor 1:2	Commentary on Romans 1.8 · Origen	allusion, high confidence	ca. 244–246 (Rufinus's translation ca. 405–406)
2 Cor 1:2	Commentary on 2 Corinthians 1:2 · Ambrosiaster	quotation, high confidence	ca. 366–384

2 Corinthians 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort,
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
2 Cor 1:3	Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved? 39.6 · Clement of Alexandria	quotation, high confidence	ca. 190–210
2 Cor 1:3	Apostolic Tradition 2 (Latin) · Hippolytus of Rome	quotation, high confidence	early third century
2 Cor 1:3	Against Marcion 5.11 · Tertullian	quotation, high confidence	207/208 (third edition, completed later)
2 Cor 1:3	Commentary on Matthew 17.35 · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 246–248
2 Cor 1:3	Commentary on Romans 9.1 · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 244–246 (Rufinus's translation ca. 405–406)
2 Cor 1:3	Canons of Hippolytus, canon 3 · Anonymous	quotation, high confidence	4th century
2 Cor 1:3	Letter 8 · Ammonas	echo, low confidence	ca. 340-360
2 Cor 1:3	Catechetical Lecture 7.5 · Cyril of Jerusalem	quotation, high confidence	ca. 350
2 Cor 1:3	Letters to Serapion 1.1 · Athanasius of Alexandria	quotation, high confidence	ca. 357–360
2 Cor 1:3–4	On the Holy Spirit 28 · Didymus the Blind	allusion, high confidence	Greek ca. 360-390; Latin 387-391
2 Cor 1:3	Letter 367 · Gregory of Nazianzus	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 360–390
2 Cor 1:3–4	Tractates on the Psalms 118.10.14 · Hilary of Poitiers	quotation, high confidence	ca. 360–367
2 Cor 1:3	Tractates on the Psalms 118.10.15 · Hilary of Poitiers	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 360–367
2 Cor 1:3	Commentary on 2 Corinthians 1:3 · Ambrosiaster	quotation, high confidence	ca. 366–384
2 Cor 1:3	Letter 120.9 · Jerome	quotation, high confidence	ca. 370–419
2 Cor 1:3	Apostolic Constitutions 8.5.2 · Anonymous	quotation, high confidence	ca. 380
2 Cor 1:3	Apostolic Constitutions 8.20.1 · Anonymous	quotation, medium confidence	ca. 380
2 Cor 1:3	To a Young Widow, section 1 · John Chrysostom	allusion, high confidence	ca. 380-386
2 Cor 1:3–4	Chapter 16 · Nicetas, bishop of Remesiana	quotation, high confidence	ca. 380–414
2 Cor 1:3	Exposition of Psalm 118 10.36.1 · Ambrose	quotation, high confidence	ca. 386-397
2 Cor 1:3	Exposition of Psalm 118 20.40.1 · Ambrose	echo, medium confidence	ca. 386-397
2 Cor 1:3	Against the Epistle of Manichaeus Called Fundamental 27 · Augustine of Hippo	echo, medium confidence	ca. 396–397

2 Corinthians 1:4

who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
2 Cor 1:4	PG 12:1511 (Ps 68 LXX) · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 220-254
2 Cor 1:4	Letter 323 · Basil of Caesarea	echo, low confidence	ca. 357–378
2 Cor 1:4	Oration 11.5 · Gregory of Nazianzus	echo, medium confidence	ca. 362–383
2 Cor 1:4	Commentary on 2 Corinthians 1:4 · Ambrosiaster	quotation, high confidence	ca. 366–384
2 Cor 1:4	Exposition of Psalm 118 10.34.1 · Ambrose	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 386-397
2 Cor 1:4	Exposition of Psalm 118 10.36.1 · Ambrose	quotation, high confidence	ca. 386-397
2 Cor 1:4	Exposition of Psalm 118 10.36.2 · Ambrose	allusion, high confidence	ca. 386-397
2 Cor 1:4	Letter 78.1 · Augustine of Hippo	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 386–430
2 Cor 1:4	Homilies on Matthew 53.3 · John Chrysostom	quotation, high confidence	ca. 390

2 Corinthians 1:5

For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
2 Cor 1:5	Exhortation to Martyrdom 42 · Origen	quotation, high confidence	235
2 Cor 1:5	Commentary on Romans 7.3 · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 244–246 (Rufinus's translation ca. 405–406)
2 Cor 1:5	Commentary on 2 Corinthians 1:5 · Ambrosiaster	quotation, high confidence	ca. 366–384
2 Cor 1:5	Letter 108.19 · Jerome	quotation, high confidence	ca. 370–419
2 Cor 1:5	Exposition of Psalm 118 10.36.1 · Ambrose	quotation, high confidence	ca. 386-397
2 Cor 1:5	Exposition of Psalm 118 10.36.2 · Ambrose	allusion, high confidence	ca. 386-397
2 Cor 1:5	Poem 16, lines 190–223 · Paulinus of Nola	echo, low confidence	ca. 393–431

2 Corinthians 1:6

If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which accomplishes in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we experience.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
2 Cor 1:6	Commentary on 2 Corinthians 1:6–7 · Ambrosiaster	quotation, high confidence	ca. 366–384

2 Corinthians 1:7

And our hope for you is sure, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you will share in our comfort.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
2 Cor 1:7	Exhortation to Martyrdom 42 · Origen	quotation, high confidence	235
2 Cor 1:7	Commentary on 2 Corinthians 1:6–7 · Ambrosiaster	quotation, high confidence	ca. 366–384
2 Cor 1:7	Letter 108.19 · Jerome	quotation, high confidence	ca. 370–419
2 Cor 1:7	Panarion (Adversus Haereses), Haer. 1-64 42.12.3 · Epiphanius of Salamis	quotation, high confidence	374-377

2 Corinthians 1:8

We do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the hardships we encountered in the province of Asia. We were under a burden far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
2 Cor 1:8	On the Resurrection of the Flesh 48 · Tertullian	quotation, high confidence	ca. 208–212
2 Cor 1:8	PG 12:1275 (Ps 25–26 LXX) · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 220-254
2 Cor 1:8–9	Moral Rules (Moralia) 62 · Basil of Caesarea	quotation, high confidence	ca. 360-370
2 Cor 1:8	Commentary on 2 Corinthians 1:8 · Ambrosiaster	quotation, high confidence	ca. 366–384
2 Cor 1:8	Commentary on 2 Corinthians 11:25 · Ambrosiaster	quotation, high confidence	ca. 366–384
2 Cor 1:8	Homilies on Matthew 28.1 · John Chrysostom	quotation, high confidence	ca. 390

2 Corinthians 1:9

Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
2 Cor 1:9	Miscellanies 1.11.50 · Clement of Alexandria	quotation, high confidence	ca. 198–203
2 Cor 1:9	Tractates on the Psalms 67.10 · Hilary of Poitiers	allusion, high confidence	ca. 360–367
2 Cor 1:9	Homilies 20.1 · Basil of Caesarea	quotation, high confidence	ca. 363-378
2 Cor 1:9	Commentary on 2 Corinthians 1:9 · Ambrosiaster	quotation, high confidence	ca. 366–384
2 Cor 1:9	On the Holy Spirit 29.75 · Basil of Caesarea	quotation, high confidence	ca. 374–375
2 Cor 1:9	Homily 6 · Gregory of Nyssa	quotation, high confidence	ca. 379–394
2 Cor 1:9	Homily 10 · Gregory of Nyssa	allusion, high confidence	ca. 390–394

2 Corinthians 1:10

He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and He will deliver us. In Him we have placed our hope that He will yet again deliver us,
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
2 Cor 1:10	Miscellanies 1.11.50 · Clement of Alexandria	quotation, high confidence	ca. 198–203
2 Cor 1:10	Homilies on Leviticus 11.2 · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
2 Cor 1:10	Moral Rules (Moralia) 62 · Basil of Caesarea	quotation, high confidence	ca. 360-370
2 Cor 1:10	Homilies 20.1 · Basil of Caesarea	quotation, high confidence	ca. 363-378
2 Cor 1:10	Commentary on 2 Corinthians 1:10–11 · Ambrosiaster	quotation, high confidence	ca. 366–384
2 Cor 1:10	Homilies on Matthew 28.1 · John Chrysostom	quotation, high confidence	ca. 390

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.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
2 Cor 1:11	Commentary on Romans 10.15 · Origen	allusion, high confidence	ca. 244–246 (Rufinus's translation ca. 405–406)
2 Cor 1:11	Commentary on 2 Corinthians 1:10–11 · Ambrosiaster	quotation, high confidence	ca. 366–384

2 Corinthians 1:12

For 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.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
2 Cor 1:12	Miscellanies 4.16.99 · Clement of Alexandria	quotation, high confidence	ca. 198–203
2 Cor 1:12	Exhortation to Martyrdom 21 · Origen	quotation, high confidence	235
2 Cor 1:12	Commentary on Romans 2.9 · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 244–246 (Rufinus's translation ca. 405–406)
2 Cor 1:12	On the Holy Spirit 10 · Didymus the Blind	quotation, high confidence	Greek ca. 360-390; Latin 387-391
2 Cor 1:12	Commentary on 2 Corinthians 1:12 · Ambrosiaster	quotation, high confidence	ca. 366–384
2 Cor 1:12	Letter 108.19 · Jerome	quotation, high confidence	ca. 370–419
2 Cor 1:12	Ancoratus 42.7 · Epiphanius of Salamis	allusion, medium confidence	374
2 Cor 1:12	Exposition of Psalm 118 20.48.1 · Ambrose	quotation, high confidence	ca. 386-397
2 Cor 1:12	Letter 140.74 · Augustine of Hippo	quotation, high confidence	ca. 386–430
2 Cor 1:12	Sermon 47.12 · Augustine of Hippo	quotation, high confidence	ca. 391-430
2 Cor 1:12	Sermon 54.2 · Augustine of Hippo	quotation, high confidence	ca. 391-430
2 Cor 1:12	Sermon 91.4 · Augustine of Hippo	quotation, high confidence	ca. 391-430
2 Cor 1:12	Sermon 93.9 · Augustine of Hippo	quotation, high confidence	ca. 391-430
2 Cor 1:12	Sermon 93.10 · Augustine of Hippo	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 391-430
2 Cor 1:12	Sermon 185.3 · Augustine of Hippo	quotation, high confidence	ca. 391-430
2 Cor 1:12	Sermon 354.3 · Augustine of Hippo	quotation, high confidence	ca. 391-430
2 Cor 1:12	Homilies on the First Epistle of John 6.2 · Augustine of Hippo	quotation, high confidence	ca. 407
2 Cor 1:12	Homilies on the First Epistle of John 8.9 · Augustine of Hippo	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 407
2 Cor 1:12	City of God 1.19 · Augustine of Hippo	echo, low confidence	413–426
2 Cor 1:12	City of God 5.12 · Augustine of Hippo	quotation, high confidence	413–426
2 Cor 1:12	City of God 14.27 · Augustine of Hippo	allusion, medium confidence	413–426
2 Cor 1:12	On the Good of Widowhood 27 · Augustine of Hippo	quotation, high confidence	ca. 414

2 Corinthians 1:13

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,
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
2 Cor 1:13	Commentary on 2 Corinthians 1:13 · Ambrosiaster	quotation, high confidence	ca. 366–384

2 Corinthians 1:14

as you have already understood us in part, that you may boast of us just as we will boast of you in the day of our Lord Jesus.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
2 Cor 1:14	Letter 28 · Basil of Caesarea	allusion, high confidence	ca. 357–378
2 Cor 1:14	Letter 226 · Basil of Caesarea	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 357–378
2 Cor 1:14	Commentary on 2 Corinthians 1:14 · Ambrosiaster	quotation, high confidence	ca. 366–384

2 Corinthians 1:15

Confident of this, I planned to visit you first, so that you might receive a double blessing.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
2 Cor 1:15	Commentary on 2 Corinthians 1:15–16 · Ambrosiaster	quotation, high confidence	ca. 366–384
2 Cor 1:15	Commentary on 2 Corinthians 1:17 · Ambrosiaster	allusion, high confidence	ca. 366–384
2 Cor 1:15	The Conferences 17.25 · John Cassian	quotation, high confidence	ca. 426–429

2 Corinthians 1:16

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.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
2 Cor 1:16	Commentary on 2 Corinthians 1:15–16 · Ambrosiaster	quotation, high confidence	ca. 366–384
2 Cor 1:16	The Conferences 17.25 · John Cassian	quotation, high confidence	ca. 426–429

2 Corinthians 1:17

When I planned this, did I do it carelessly? Or do I make my plans by human standards, so as to say “Yes, yes” and also “No, no”?
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
2 Cor 1:17	Commentary on 2 Corinthians 1:17 · Ambrosiaster	quotation, high confidence	ca. 366–384
2 Cor 1:17	The Conferences 17.25 · John Cassian	quotation, high confidence	ca. 426–429

2 Corinthians 1:18

But as surely as God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes” and “No.”
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
2 Cor 1:18	Commentary on Romans 4.8 · Origen	allusion, high confidence	ca. 244–246 (Rufinus's translation ca. 405–406)
2 Cor 1:18	Commentary on 2 Corinthians 1:18 · Ambrosiaster	quotation, high confidence	ca. 366–384

2 Corinthians 1:19

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.”
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
2 Cor 1:19	Commentary on 2 Corinthians 1:19 · Ambrosiaster	quotation, high confidence	ca. 366–384
2 Cor 1:19	On the Christian Faith 5.1 · Ambrose	allusion, high confidence	ca. 378–380
2 Cor 1:19	Canons on the Letters of Paul 1 · Priscillian	allusion, high confidence	ca. 380–400
2 Cor 1:19	Explanation of Twelve Psalms 36.78.1 · Ambrose	allusion, high confidence	ca. 387-397
2 Cor 1:19	The Teacher 5 · Augustine of Hippo	quotation, high confidence	389
2 Cor 1:19	Sermon 75.8 · Augustine of Hippo	quotation, high confidence	ca. 391-430
2 Cor 1:19	On the Christian Struggle 20 · Augustine of Hippo	quotation, high confidence	ca. 396–397
2 Cor 1:19–20	Against Faustus the Manichaean 19.7 · Augustine of Hippo	quotation, high confidence	ca. 398–400
2 Cor 1:19	On the Trinity 15.15 · Augustine of Hippo	allusion, high confidence	ca. 399–419

2 Corinthians 1:20

For all the promises of God are “Yes” in Christ. And so through Him, our “Amen” is spoken to the glory of God.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
2 Cor 1:20	Against the Arians 12 · Phoebadius of Agen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 357-358
2 Cor 1:20	Commentary on 2 Corinthians 1:20 · Ambrosiaster	quotation, high confidence	ca. 366–384
2 Cor 1:20	Panarion (Adversus Haereses), Haer. 1-64 42.11.8 · Epiphanius of Salamis	quotation, high confidence	374-377
2 Cor 1:20	Panarion (Adversus Haereses), Haer. 1-64 42.12.3 · Epiphanius of Salamis	quotation, high confidence	374-377
2 Cor 1:20	Against Faustus the Manichaean 12.5 · Augustine of Hippo	quotation, high confidence	ca. 398–400
2 Cor 1:20	Against Faustus the Manichaean 19.8 · Augustine of Hippo	quotation, high confidence	ca. 398–400
2 Cor 1:20	Tractates on the Gospel of John 28.9 · Augustine of Hippo	quotation, high confidence	ca. 406–420

2 Corinthians 1:21

Now it is God who establishes both us and you in Christ. He anointed us,
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
2 Cor 1:21	To Autolycus 1.12 · Theophilus of Antioch	echo, low confidence	ca. 180–185
2 Cor 1:21	Commentary on 2 Corinthians 1:21–22 · Ambrosiaster	quotation, high confidence	ca. 366–384
2 Cor 1:21	On the Mysteries 7 · Ambrose	allusion, high confidence	ca. 387–391
2 Cor 1:21	Exposition of the Right Faith 5 · Anonymous	quotation, high confidence	early 5th century (probably Theodoret)

2 Corinthians 1:22

placed His seal on us, and put His Spirit in our hearts as a pledge of what is to come.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
2 Cor 1:22	On Pascha 67 · text not on this site · Melito of Sardis	echo, low confidence	ca. 160-180
2 Cor 1:22	To Autolycus 3.30 · Theophilus of Antioch	echo, low confidence	ca. 180–185
2 Cor 1:22	Against Heresies 3.24.1 · Irenaeus of Lyons	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 180–190
2 Cor 1:22	Prophetic Extracts 12.1 · Clement of Alexandria	allusion, high confidence	ca. 200
2 Cor 1:22	Excerpts from Theodotus 86.2 · Clement of Alexandria	echo, medium confidence	ca. 200
2 Cor 1:22	Against Hermogenes 34 · Tertullian	echo, low confidence	ca. 200–206
2 Cor 1:22	On the Resurrection of the Flesh 51 · Tertullian	allusion, high confidence	ca. 208–212
2 Cor 1:22	On the Resurrection of the Flesh 53 · Tertullian	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 208–212
2 Cor 1:22	On First Principles 2.6.7 · Origen	echo, low confidence	ca. 220–230 (Rufinus's translation 398)
2 Cor 1:22	Commentary on John 13.112 · Origen	allusion, high confidence	ca. 230–248
2 Cor 1:22	Homilies on Ezekiel 2.5 · Origen	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 238–250 (Jerome's translation in the 380s)
2 Cor 1:22	Catechetical Lecture 1.2 · Cyril of Jerusalem	allusion, high confidence	ca. 350
2 Cor 1:22	Catechetical Lecture 17.32 · Cyril of Jerusalem	quotation, high confidence	ca. 350
2 Cor 1:22	On the Trinity 1.36 · Hilary of Poitiers	allusion, low confidence	ca. 356–360
2 Cor 1:22	On the Trinity 2.35 · Hilary of Poitiers	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 356–360
2 Cor 1:22	Homilies on the Psalms 33.6 · Basil of Caesarea	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 360-378
2 Cor 1:22	Oration 5.27 · Gregory of Nazianzus	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 362–383
2 Cor 1:22	Oration 14.13 · Gregory of Nazianzus	allusion, high confidence	ca. 362–383
2 Cor 1:22	Oration 40.4 · Gregory of Nazianzus	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 362–383
2 Cor 1:22	Commentary on 2 Corinthians 1:21–22 · Ambrosiaster	quotation, high confidence	ca. 366–384
2 Cor 1:22	Commentary on 2 Corinthians 3:18 · Ambrosiaster	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 366–384
2 Cor 1:22	Question 125, section 19 · Ambrosiaster	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 370–384
2 Cor 1:22	Panarion (Adversus Haereses), Haer. 1-64 64.63.16 · Epiphanius of Salamis	allusion, medium confidence	374-377
2 Cor 1:22	On Virgins 1.9 · Ambrose	allusion, high confidence	ca. 377
2 Cor 1:22	On Tobit 67 · Ambrose	quotation, high confidence	ca. 380-390
2 Cor 1:22	Letter 92.1 · Augustine of Hippo	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 386–430
2 Cor 1:22	Letter 94.5 · Augustine of Hippo	allusion, high confidence	ca. 386–430
2 Cor 1:22	Letter 140.80 · Augustine of Hippo	echo, medium confidence	ca. 386–430
2 Cor 1:22	Letter 177.4 · Augustine of Hippo	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 386–430
2 Cor 1:22	Homilies on Matthew 11.6 · John Chrysostom	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 390
2 Cor 1:22	Homilies on Matthew 66.5 · John Chrysostom	allusion, low confidence	ca. 390
2 Cor 1:22	On the Mysteries 7 · Ambrose	allusion, high confidence	ca. 387–391
2 Cor 1:22	Sermon 9.5 · Augustine of Hippo	quotation, high confidence	ca. 391-430
2 Cor 1:22	Sermon 23.8 · Augustine of Hippo	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 391-430
2 Cor 1:22	Sermon 156.16 · Augustine of Hippo	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 391-430
2 Cor 1:22	Sermon 210.7 · Augustine of Hippo	allusion, high confidence	ca. 391-430
2 Cor 1:22	Sermon 371.2 · Augustine of Hippo	echo, medium confidence	ca. 391-430
2 Cor 1:22	Sermon 378.1 · Augustine of Hippo	allusion, high confidence	ca. 391-430
2 Cor 1:22	Letters 13.26 · Paulinus of Nola	allusion, high confidence	ca. 394–413
2 Cor 1:22	Letters 26.5 · Paulinus of Nola	allusion, high confidence	ca. 394–413
2 Cor 1:22	Letters 45.5 · Paulinus of Nola	allusion, high confidence	ca. 394–413
2 Cor 1:22	On Continence 21 · Augustine of Hippo	allusion, low confidence	ca. 395
2 Cor 1:22	Confessions 7.27 · Augustine of Hippo	allusion, high confidence	ca. 397–401
2 Cor 1:22	Against Faustus the Manichaean 32.18 · Augustine of Hippo	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 398–400
2 Cor 1:22	Tractates 9 · Gaudentius of Brescia	allusion, high confidence	ca. 397-410
2 Cor 1:22	On the Trinity 5.12 · Augustine of Hippo	allusion, low confidence	ca. 399–419
2 Cor 1:22	The Harmony of the Gospels 4.20 · Augustine of Hippo	allusion, high confidence	ca. 399–400
2 Cor 1:22	Exposition of the Right Faith 5 · Anonymous	quotation, high confidence	early 5th century (probably Theodoret)
2 Cor 1:22	Tractates on the Gospel of John 8.4 · Augustine of Hippo	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 406–420
2 Cor 1:22	Tractates on the Gospel of John 32.5 · Augustine of Hippo	echo, medium confidence	ca. 406–420
2 Cor 1:22	Tractates on the Gospel of John 96.4 · Augustine of Hippo	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 406–420
2 Cor 1:22	Tractates on the Gospel of John 97.1 · Augustine of Hippo	allusion, high confidence	ca. 406–420
2 Cor 1:22	Tractates on the Gospel of John 124.5 · Augustine of Hippo	allusion, high confidence	ca. 406–420
2 Cor 1:22	Homilies on the First Epistle of John 9.11 · Augustine of Hippo	allusion, high confidence	ca. 407
2 Cor 1:22	City of God 5.16 · Augustine of Hippo	echo, medium confidence	413–426
2 Cor 1:22	City of God 19.17 · Augustine of Hippo	allusion, medium confidence	413–426
2 Cor 1:22	City of God 21.15 · Augustine of Hippo	allusion, medium confidence	413–426
2 Cor 1:22	City of God 22.29 · Augustine of Hippo	allusion, high confidence	413–426
2 Cor 1:22	Against Two Letters of the Pelagians 3.4 · Augustine of Hippo	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 420–421
2 Cor 1:22	Enchiridion (Handbook on Faith, Hope, and Love) 65 · Augustine of Hippo	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 421–423

2 Corinthians 1:23

I call God as my witness that it was in order to spare you that I did not return to Corinth.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
2 Cor 1:23	Defence before Constantius 3 · Athanasius of Alexandria	allusion, high confidence	ca. 353–357
2 Cor 1:23	Commentary on 2 Corinthians 1:21–22 · Ambrosiaster	quotation, high confidence	ca. 366–384
2 Cor 1:23	Letter 61.2 · Augustine of Hippo	quotation, high confidence	ca. 386–430
2 Cor 1:23	Letter 78.9 · Augustine of Hippo	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 386–430
2 Cor 1:23	Letter 157.40 · Augustine of Hippo	quotation, high confidence	ca. 386–430
2 Cor 1:23–24	Letter 211.2 · Augustine of Hippo	quotation, high confidence	ca. 386–430
2 Cor 1:23	Letter 247.4 · Augustine of Hippo	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 386–430
2 Cor 1:23	Sermon 180.5 · Augustine of Hippo	quotation, high confidence	ca. 391-430
2 Cor 1:23	On Lying 28 · Augustine of Hippo	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 395
2 Cor 1:23	On the Work of Monks 37 · Augustine of Hippo	allusion, high confidence	ca. 400–401
2 Cor 1:23	Apologetic Book 8.4 · Orosius	quotation, high confidence	ca. 415–416
2 Cor 1:23	The Conferences 17.25 · John Cassian	quotation, high confidence	ca. 426–429

2 Corinthians 1:24

Not that we lord it over your faith, but we are fellow workers with you for your joy, because it is by faith that you stand firm.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
2 Cor 1:24	Apostolic Church Order 30 · Anonymous	echo, low confidence	ca. 300
2 Cor 1:24	Demonstration 14.42 · Aphrahat	quotation, high confidence	337-345
2 Cor 1:24	Commentary on 2 Corinthians 1:21–22 · Ambrosiaster	quotation, high confidence	ca. 366–384