2 Corinthians 1:18

But God is faithful, because our word toward you became not, yes and no.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.

In Context

17Therefore intending this, did I accordingly employ anything in lightness? Or what I decide, do I decide according to flesh, so that it would be with me the yes, yes and the no, no?

19For the Son of God, Jesus Christ who was proclaimed among you by us (by me and Silvanus and Timothy) became not, yes and no, but in him has become, yes.

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Cross References

John 8:26I have many things to say and to judge about you. But he who sent me is true, and I speak to the world these things that I heard from him.

2 Corinthians 1:23But I call God for a witness upon my soul, that I did not yet come to Corinth, sparing you.

2 Corinthians 11:31The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed into the ages, knows that I do not lie.

Revelation 3:7And to the agent of the congregation in Philadelphia write, These things says the Holy, the True, he who has the key of David, who opens, and none will shut it except he who opens, and none will open:

Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 1:16-24

Paul's Sincerity and Affliction. ( a. d. 57.) 15 And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit; 16 And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judæa. 17 When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay? 18 But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.… Read the whole commentary →

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