13. For we do not write you anything other than what you can read and also understand. But I hope that you will understand completely
14. just as also you have partly understood us, that we are your source of pride just as you also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.
15. And with this confidence I intended to come to you first so that you would get a second opportunity to see us,
16. and through your help to go on into Macedonia and then from Macedonia to come back to you and be helped on our way into Judea by you.
17. Therefore when I was planning to do this, I did not do so without thinking about what I was doing, did I? Or do I make my plans according to mere human standards so that I would be saying both “Yes, yes” and “No, no” at the same time?
18. But as God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes” and “No.”
19. For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, the one who was proclaimed among you by us – by me and Silvanus and Timothy – was not “Yes” and “No,” but it has always been “Yes” in him.
20. For every one of God’s promises are “Yes” in him; therefore also through him the “Amen” is spoken, to the glory we give to God.
21. But it is God who establishes us together with you in Christ and who anointed us,
22. who also sealed us and gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a down payment.
23. Now I appeal to God as my witness, that to spare you I did not come again to Corinth.
24. I do not mean that we rule over your faith, but we are workers with you for your joy, because by faith you stand firm.