11. You also are helping by your prayer for us, so that from many people thanks may be given on our behalf for the gracious gift given us through the help of many.
12. For our reason for boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world, and most especially toward you, with simplicity and godly sincerity—not by human wisdom but by the grace of God.
13. For we write nothing to you other than what you can read and understand—and I hope you will understand in full
14. just as you understood us in part, so that we are your reason for boasting just as you also are ours in the Day of our Lord Yeshua.
15. Because of this confidence, I was planning to come to you first, so that you might have a second benefit—
16. to pass by you on my way to Macedonia and again from Macedonia to come back to you, and to be helped by you on my journey to Judea.
17. So when I was planning to do this, I didn’t do so lightly, did I? Or the things I plan, do I plan according to the flesh—so it might be with me “Yes, yes” and “No, no” at the same time?