2 Corinthians 1:15-22
International Standard Version
Why Paul’s Visit Was Postponed
15 Because I was confident, I planned to come to you first so you might receive a double blessing. 16 I planned to leave you in order to go[a] to Macedonia, and then come back to you from Macedonia, and let you send me on to Judea.
17 When I planned this, I did not do it lightly, did I? Are my plans so fickle[b] that I can say “Yes” and “No”[c] at the same time? 18 As certainly as God is faithful, we haven’t talked to you with mixed messages like that.[d] 19 For God’s Son, Jesus the Messiah,[e] who was preached among you by us—by me, Silvanus, and Timothy—was not “Yes” and “No.” But with him it is always “Yes.” 20 For all God’s promises are “Yes” in him. And so through him we can say “Amen,”[f] to the glory of God. 21 Now the one who makes us—and you as well—secure in union with the Messiah[g] and has anointed us is God, 22 who has placed his seal on us and has given us the Spirit in our hearts as a down payment.
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- 2 Corinthians 1:16 Lit. To go through you
- 2 Corinthians 1:17 Lit. according to the flesh
- 2 Corinthians 1:17 Lit. “Yes, yes” and “No, no”
- 2 Corinthians 1:18 Lit. faithful, our word to you is not “Yes” and “No”
- 2 Corinthians 1:19 Or Christ
- 2 Corinthians 1:20 Lit. through him is the “Amen”
- 2 Corinthians 1:21 Or Christ
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