10. He delivered us from so great a death and does deliver us. In Him we trust that He will still deliver us,
11. as you help together by praying for us, so that thanks may be given by many on our behalf for the gift bestowed upon us by means of many persons.
12. For our rejoicing is this: The testimony of our conscience is that we conducted ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you, in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God.
13. For we write nothing else to you than what you read or understand. And I trust you will understand even to the end,
14. as you have understood us in part, that we are yours, boasting even as you are ours on the day of the Lord Jesus.
15. In this confidence I planned to come to you before, that you might have a second benefit:
16. to visit you while going to Macedonia, and to come again to you from Macedonia, and then be sent by you on my way to Judea.
17. Therefore, when I was planning this, did I do this lightly? Or the things that I plan, do I plan according to the flesh, so that I would tell you “Yes, yes” and “No, no”?
18. But as God is true, we did not tell you “Yes” and “No.”
19. For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by Silas, Timothy, and me, was not “Yes” and “No.” In Him it was “Yes.”