14. As also you have known us in part, that we are your glory, as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
15. And in this confidence I had a mind to come to you before, that you might have a second grace:
16. And to pass by you into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and by you to be brought on my way towards Judea.
17. Whereas then I was thus minded, did I use lightness? Or, the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that there should be with me, It is, and It is not?
18. But God is faithful, for our preaching which was to you, was not, It is, and It is not.
19. For the Son of God, Jesus Christ who was preached among you by us, by me, and Sylvanus, and Timothy, was not, It is and It is not, but, It is, was in him.
20. For all the promises of God are in him, It is; therefore also by him, amen to God, unto our glory.
21. Now he that confirmeth us with you in Christ, and that hath anointed us, is God:
22. Who also hath sealed us, and given the pledge of the Spirit in our hearts.
23. But I call God to witness upon my soul, that to spare you, I came not any more to Corinth: not because we exercise dominion over your faith: but we are helpers of your joy: for in faith you stand.