15. Because I was confident of this, I wanted to visit you first so that you might benefit twice.
16. I wanted to visit you on my way to Macedonia and to come back to you from Macedonia, and then to let you send me on my way to Judea.
17. Was I fickle when I intended to do this? Or do I make my plans in a worldly manner so that in the same breath I say both ‘Yes, yes’ and ‘No, no’?
18. But as surely as God is faithful, our message to you is not ‘Yes’ and ‘No’.