Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Our Boast As We Endure Our Suffering Is Our Blameless And Forthright Behavior Toward You

¹² For our boasting is this: the testimony of ^[a] our conscience that we conducted-ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, in simplicity^[b] and purity^[c] from God^[d]; and not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God. ¹³ For we are writing no other things to you other than the things which you read or indeed understand. And I hope that you will understand until the end^[e]— ¹⁴ just as you also did understand us in part— that we are your boast, even as you also are ours, on the day of our Lord Jesus.

And In This Confidence I Was Intending To Come To You First, Then Go To Macedonia

¹⁵ And in this confidence, I was intending first^[f] to come to you in order that you might have a second^[g] benefit^[h], ¹⁶ and^[i] to go through you to Macedonia, and from Macedonia to come again to you, and to be sent-forward by you to Judea.

I Do Not Make My Plans Lightly, But I Changed My Plans In Order To Spare You

¹⁷ Therefore, while intending this, I did not then act with lightness, did I ? Or do I plan^[j] the things which I plan according-to the flesh— so that^[k] there is with me the yes, yes, and the no, no? ¹⁸ But as God is faithful^[l], our message to you is not yes and no. ¹⁹ For God’s Son Jesus Christ, the One having been proclaimed among you by us— by me and Silvanus and Timothy— did not become^[m] yes and no, but has become yes in Him.