2 Corinthians 1:18

God is the witness, that our word to you was not Yes and No.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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

In Context

17When therefore I thus purposed, did I purpose as one inconsiderate? Or, were the things I purposed, things of the flesh; so that there should be in them Yes, yes, and No, no?

19For the Son of God, Jesus the Messiah, who was preached to you by us, namely, by me, by Sylvanus, and by Timotheus, was not Yes and No; but it was Yes in him.

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Cross References

John 8:26I have yet many things to say and to Judge concerning you. But he that sent me is true: and the things which I have heard from him, them I speak in the world.

2 Corinthians 1:23Moreover, I call God for a witness on my soul, that it was in order to spare you, that I came not to Corinth.

2 Corinthians 11:31God, the Father of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, blessed for ever and ever, he knoweth that I lie not.

Revelation 3:7And to the angel of the church which is at Philadelphia, write: These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, who openeth and no man 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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