2 Corinthians 1:18

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

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

17Such then being my intention, did I indeed change it with levity? or the things which I purpose, do I purpose after the flesh, that with me there should be yea, yea, and nay, nay?

19For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us―by me and Silvanus and Timotheus―was not yea and nay, but there was yea in him;

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Cross References

John 8:26I have many things to speak and to decide concerning you: but he that sent me is true; and the things which I have heard from him I speak to the world.

2 Corinthians 1:23But I appeal to God as a witness unto my soul, that to spare you I have not yet come to Corinth:

2 Corinthians 11:31The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.

Revelation 3:7And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write, These things saith the Holy One, he that is true, who hath the key of David, who openeth, and none shutteth, and shutteth, and no man openeth.

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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