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.
20. For whatever promises are of God are, in him, Yes. For this reason, too, through him: Amen to God for our glory.
21. Now the One who confirms us with you in Christ, and who has anointed us, is God.
22. And he has sealed us, and he has placed the pledge of the Spirit in our hearts.
23. But I call God as a witness to my soul, that I was lenient with you, in that I did not return to Corinth:
24. not because we have dominion over your faith, but because we are assistants of your joy. For by faith you stand.