2 Corinthians 1:18

As God is true, our word to you is not Yes and No.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

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

In Context

17If then I had such a purpose, did I seem to be changing suddenly? or am I guided in my purposes by the flesh, saying, Yes, today, and, No, tomorrow?

19For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we were preaching among you, even I and Silvanus and Timothy, was not Yes and No, but in him is Yes.

Read all of 2 Corinthians 1

Cross References

John 8:26I have much to say about you and against you: but he who sent me is true and what he has said to me I say to the world.

2 Corinthians 1:23But God is my witness that it was in pity for you that I did not come to Corinth at that time.

2 Corinthians 11:31The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom be praise for ever, is witness that the things which I say are true.

Revelation 3:7And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia say: These things says he who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, opening the door so that it may be shut by no one, and shutting it so that it may be open to no one.

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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study 2 Corinthians 1:18