2 Corinthians 1:18

and God [is] faithful, that our word unto you became not Yes and No,

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

17This, therefore, counselling, did I then use the lightness; or the things that I counsel, according to the flesh do I counsel, that it may be with me Yes, yes, and No, no?

19for the Son of God, Jesus Christ, among you through us having been preached — through me and Silvanus and Timotheus — did not become Yes and No, but in him it hath become Yes;

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Cross References

John 8:26many things I have to speak concerning you and to judge, but He who sent me is true, and I — what things I heard from Him — these I say to the world.'

2 Corinthians 1:23And I for a witness on God do call upon my soul, that sparing you, I came not yet to Corinth;

2 Corinthians 11:31the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ — who is blessed to the ages — hath known that I do not lie! —

Revelation 3:7'And to the messenger of the assembly in Philadelphia write: These things saith he who is holy, he who is true, he who is having the key of David, he who is opening and no one doth shut, and he shutteth and no one doth 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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