¹³ It is written: “I believed; therefore I have spoken.”^[a](A) Since we have that same spirit of^[b] faith,^(B) we also believe and therefore speak,

⁸ This is a trustworthy saying.^(A) And I want you to stress these things, so that those who have trusted in God may be careful to devote themselves to doing what is good.^(B) These things are excellent and profitable for everyone.

¹⁷ Was I fickle when I intended to do this? Or do I make my plans in a worldly manner^(A) so that in the same breath I say both “Yes, yes” and “No, no”?

¹⁸ But as surely as God is faithful,^(B) our message to you is not “Yes” and “No.” ¹⁹ For the Son of God,^(C) Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us—by me and Silas^[a](D) and Timothy^(E)—was not “Yes” and “No,” but in him it has always^(F) been “Yes.” ²⁰ For no matter how many promises^(G) God has made, they are “Yes” in Christ. And so through him the “Amen”^(H) is spoken by us to the glory of God.^(I)

¹⁵ “You’re out of your mind,” they told her. When she kept insisting that it was so, they said, “It must be his angel.”^(A)