2 Corinthians 1:18-22
The Message
17-19 Are you now going to accuse me of flip-flopping with my promises because it didn’t work out? Do you think I talk out of both sides of my mouth—a glib yes one moment, a glib no the next? Well, you’re wrong. I try to be as true to my word as God is to his. Our word to you wasn’t a careless yes canceled by an indifferent no. How could it be? When Silas and Timothy and I proclaimed the Son of God among you, did you pick up on any yes-and-no, on-again, off-again waffling? Wasn’t it a clean, strong Yes?
20-22 Whatever God has promised gets stamped with the Yes of Jesus. In him, this is what we preach and pray, the great Amen, God’s Yes and our Yes together, gloriously evident. God affirms us, making us a sure thing in Christ, putting his Yes within us. By his Spirit he has stamped us with his eternal pledge—a sure beginning of what he is destined to complete.
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2 Corinthians 1:18-20
New International Version
18 But as surely as God is faithful,(A) our message to you is not “Yes” and “No.” 19 For the Son of God,(B) Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us—by me and Silas[a](C) and Timothy(D)—was not “Yes” and “No,” but in him it has always(E) been “Yes.” 20 For no matter how many promises(F) God has made, they are “Yes” in Christ. And so through him the “Amen”(G) is spoken by us to the glory of God.(H)
Footnotes
- 2 Corinthians 1:19 Greek Silvanus, a variant of Silas
2 Corinthians 1:18-20
King James Version
18 But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.
19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea.
20 For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
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