15. And with this bitachon (confidence) I planned previously to come to you, that a second benefit you might have.
16. It was my cheshbon (plan) to visit you by way of Macedonia and again from Macedonia to come to you, and by you to be sent on to Yehudah (Judea Ac 19:21; 1C 16:5,6).
17. This was my matarah (aim, goal); surely then I did not act with vacillation? Or when I make plans [2C 5:16], do I have a cheshbon according to the basar, ready with "Ken, Ken!" and then, "Lo! Lo!"
18. Al emunat Hashem (in the faithfulness of G-d), our dvar to you has not been "Ken" and "Lo."