¹⁵ And in this confidence, I was minded to come unto you before this, that ye might have a second benefit:

¹⁶ to visit you on my way to Macedonia, and to come again to you on my way out of Macedonia, and be sent by you on my way toward Judea.

¹⁷ When therefore I was thus minded, did I decide lightly? Or the things which I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be “yea, yea” and “nay, nay”?

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 Timothy, 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.

²¹ Now He who establisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God,

²² who hath also put His seal upon us, and given us the pledge of the Spirit in our hearts.