13. For we write you nothing but what you can read and understand, and I hope that you will understand completely,
14. as you have come to understand us partially, that we are your boast as you also are ours, on the day of [our] Lord Jesus.
15. With this confidence I formerly intended to come to you so that you might receive a double favor,
16. namely, to go by way of you to Macedonia, and then to come to you again on my return from Macedonia, and have you send me on my way to Judea.
17. So when I intended this, did I act lightly? Or do I make my plans according to human considerations, so that with me it is “yes, yes” and “no, no”?
18. As God is faithful, our word to you is not “yes” and “no.”