Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
12 Our assurance is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in sincerity and godly purity, and not in fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God we have conducted ourselves in the world, and most of all toward you. 13 We write no other things to you than what you read and also know. Yea and I trust you will find us to the end 14 just as you have found us so far. For we are your delight and joy, even as you are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.
15 And in this confidence I was minded the other time to have gone to you, so that you might have had yet one pleasure more, 16 and to have passed by you on the way to Macedonia, and to have come again out of Macedonia to you, and to have been led on my way toward Judea by you. 17 When I was so minded, was it lightly? Or do I think carnally the things that I think, such that with me there should be yea, yea, and nay, nay?
18 God is faithful. For our preaching to you was not yea and nay. 19 For God’s Son Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us (that is to say, by me and Silvanus and Timothy) was not yea and nay, but in him was yea.
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