14. according as also ye did acknowledge us in part, that your glory we are, even as also ye [are] ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus;
15. and in this confidence I was purposing to come unto you before, that a second favour ye might have,
16. and through you to pass to Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come unto you, and by you to be sent forward to Judea.
17. This, therefore, counselling, did I then use the lightness; or the things that I counsel, according to the flesh do I counsel, that it may be with me Yes, yes, and No, no?
18. and God [is] faithful, that our word unto you became not Yes and No,
19. for the Son of God, Jesus Christ, among you through us having been preached- -through me and Silvanus and Timotheus--did not become Yes and No, but in him it hath become Yes;
20. for as many as [are] promises of God, in him [are] the Yes, and in him the Amen, for glory to God through us;
21. and He who is confirming you with us into Christ, and did anoint us, [is] God,
22. who also sealed us, and gave the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
23. And I for a witness on God do call upon my soul, that sparing you, I came not yet to Corinth;