(14) Moreover I call God for a record upon my (z) soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.
(14) Now coming to the matter, he swears that he did not lightly alter his purpose of coming to them, but rather that he did not come to them for this reason, that he, being present, might not be forced to deal more sharply with them than he would like.
(z) Against myself, and to the danger of my own life.