2 Corinthians 1:18

As God is true, the message that we brought you does not waver between ‘Yes’ and ‘No’!

Open English Bible (US)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

17As this was my plan, where, pray, did I show any fickleness of purpose? Or do you think that my plans are formed on mere impulse, so that in the same breath I say ‘Yes’ and ‘No’?

19The Son of God, Christ Jesus, whom we – Silas, Timothy, and I – proclaimed among you, never wavered between ‘Yes’ and ‘No.’ With him it has always been ‘Yes.’

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Cross References

John 8:26“I have still much that concerns you to speak of and to pass judgment on; yet he who sent me may be trusted, and I speak to the world only of the things which I have heard from him.”

2 Corinthians 1:23But, as my life will answer for it, I call God to witness that it was to spare you that I deferred my visit to Corinth.

2 Corinthians 11:31The God and Father of the Lord Jesus – he who is for ever blessed – knows that I am speaking the truth.

Revelation 3:7“To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the Key of David, who opens and no one will shut, and shuts and no one opens:

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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