13. For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read or even acknowledge, and I hope ye will acknowledge unto the end:
14. as also ye did acknowledge us in part, that we are your glorying, even as ye also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.
15. And in this confidence I was minded to come before unto you, that ye might have a second benefit;
16. and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come unto you, and of you to be set forward on my journey unto Judaea.
17. When I therefore was thus minded, did I shew fickleness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the yea yea and the nay nay?
18. But as God is faithful, our word toward you is not yea and nay.
19. For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timothy, was not yea and nay, but in him is yea.
20. For how many soever be the promises of God, in him is the yea: wherefore also through him is the Amen, unto the glory of God through us.
21. Now he that stablisheth us with you in Christ, and anointed us, is God;
22. who also sealed us, and gave us the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
23. But I call God for a witness upon my soul, that to spare you I forbare to come unto Corinth.