This is clear from 2 Corinthians 1: 15, 16, where we read: “With this confidence, I was intending to come first to you, so that you might have a second occasion for joy; for I intended to visit you on my way to Macedonia, to return to you from Macedonia, and then to have you send me off to Judea. ”
पण, ते पत्र लिहिण्याच्या काही काळातच पौलाला ख्लोवे आणि त्याच्या घरच्यांकडून कळते की करिंथ मंडळीत गंभीर स्वरूपाच्या फूटी निर्माण झाल्या आहेत.