^8 (A)This is a faithful saying, and these things I want you to affirm constantly, that those who have believed in God should be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men.

¹³ And since we have ^(A)the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, ^(B)“I believed and therefore I spoke,” we also believe and therefore speak,

¹⁷ Therefore, when I was planning this, did I do it lightly? Or the things I plan, do I plan ^(A)according to the flesh, that with me there should be Yes, Yes, and No, No? ¹⁸ But as God is ^(B)faithful, our ^[a]word to you was not Yes and No. ¹⁹ For ^(C)the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us—by me, ^(D)Silvanus, and ^(E)Timothy—was not Yes and No, ^(F)but in Him was Yes. ^20 (G)For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us.

¹⁵ But they said to her, “You are beside yourself!” Yet she kept insisting that it was so. So they said, ^(A)“It is his angel.”