13-14. We write to you only what you can read and understand. And I hope that as you have understood some things about us, you may come to know everything about us. Then you can be proud of us, as we will be proud of you on the day our Lord Jesus Christ comes again.
15. I was so sure of all this that I made plans to visit you first so you could be blessed twice.
16. I planned to visit you on my way to Macedonia and again on my way back. I wanted to get help from you for my trip to Judea.
17. Do you think that I made these plans without really meaning it? Or maybe you think I make plans as the world does, so that I say yes, yes and at the same time no, no.
18. But since you can believe God, you can believe that what we tell you is never both yes and no.
19. The Son of God, Jesus Christ, that Silas and Timothy and I preached to you, was not yes and no. In Christ it has always been yes.