12. For our boasting is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity before God, (not in fleshly wisdom but in God's grace,) we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly towards you.
13. For we do not write other things to you but what ye well know and recognise; and I hope that ye will recognise to the end,
14. even as also ye have recognised us in part, that we are your boast, even as ye are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.
15. And with this confidence I purposed to come to you previously, that ye might have a second favour;
16. and to pass through to Macedonia by you, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be set forward by you to Judaea.
17. Having therefore this purpose, did I then use lightness? Or what I purpose, do I purpose according to flesh, that there should be with me yea yea, and nay nay?
18. Now God is faithful, that our word to you is not yea and nay.
19. For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, he who has been preached by us among you (by me and Silvanus and Timotheus), did not become yea and nay, but yea is in him.
20. For whatever promises of God there are, in him is the yea, and in him the amen, for glory to God by us.
21. Now he that establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us, is God,
22. who also has sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
23. But I call God to witness upon my soul that to spare you I have not yet come to Corinth.