11. And you are assisting, with your prayers for us, so that from many persons, by that which is a gift in us, thanks may be given through many persons, because of us.
12. For our glory is this: the testimony of our conscience, which is found in simplicity of heart and in sincerity toward God. And it is not with worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God, that we have conversed with this world, and more abundantly toward you.
13. For we write nothing else to you other than what you have read and understood. And I hope that you will continue to understand, even unto the end.
14. And just as you have acknowledged us in our role, that we are your glory, so also you are ours, unto the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
15. And with this confidence, I wanted to come to you sooner, so that you might have a second grace,
16. and through you to pass into Macedonia, and to return to you again from Macedonia, and so be led by you on my way to Judea.
17. Then, although I had intended this, did I act lightly? Or in the things that I consider, do I consider according to the flesh, so that there would be, with me, both Yes and No?
18. But God is faithful, so our word, which was set before you, was not, in him, both Yes and No.
19. For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you through us, through myself and Sylvanus and Timothy, was not Yes, and No; but was simply Yes in him.