2 Corinthians 1:17

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

When I therefore was thus minded, did {G687} I show fickleness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the yea yea and the nay nay?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Τοῦτο οὖν βουλευόμενος, μήτι ἄρα τῇ ἐλαφρίᾳ ἐχρησάμην; ἢ ἃ βουλεύομαι, κατὰ σάρκα βουλεύομαι, ἵνα ᾖ παρʼ ἐμοὶ τὸ Ναὶ ναὶ, καὶ τὸ Οὒ οὔ;

Transliteration

This therefore bouleuomenos, did I then use elaphria? Or what I bouleuomai, according to sarka do I bouleuomai, that there should be with me the Yes yes, and the No no?

Grammar Details

*bouleuomenos*: present participle, middle, nominative, masculine, singular - planning/intending
*elaphria*: dative, feminine, singular - lightness/fickleness
*bouleuomai*: present indicative, middle, 1st person singular - I plan/intend
*sarka*: accusative, feminine, singular - flesh

Word Meanings

*bouleuomenos*: planning/intending/purposing/deciding
*elaphria*: lightness/fickleness/vacillation/indecision
*bouleuomai*: I plan/intend/purpose/decide
*sarka*: flesh/body/human nature/human standards

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Referenced Verses

2 Cor 10:2-3 : 2 yea, I beseech you, that I may not when present show courage with the confidence wherewith I count to be bold against some, who count of us as if we walked according to the flesh. 3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh
Matt 5:37 : 37 But let your speech be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: and whatsoever is more than these is of the evil one.
John 8:15 : 15 Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man.
2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For our glorifying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
2 Cor 1:18-20 : 18 But as God is faithful, our word toward you is not yea and nay. 19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, [even] by me and Silvanus and Timothy, was not yea and nay, but in him is yea. 20 For how many soever be the promises of God, in him is the yea: wherefore also through him is the Amen, unto the glory of God through us.
Gal 1:16 : 16 to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles; straightway I conferred not with flesh and blood:
Gal 2:2 : 2 And I went up by revelation; and I laid before them the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles but privately before them who were of repute, lest by any means I should be running, or had run, in vain.
1 Thess 2:18 : 18 because we would fain have come unto you, I Paul once and again; and Satan hindered us.
Jas 5:12 : 12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by the heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath: but let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay; that ye fall not under judgment.
Judg 9:4 : 4 And they gave him threescore and ten [pieces] of silver out of the house of Baal-berith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light fellows, who followed him.
Jer 23:32 : 32 Behold, I am against them that prophesy lying dreams, saith Jehovah, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting: yet I sent them not, nor commanded them; neither do they profit this people at all, saith Jehovah.
Zeph 3:4 : 4 Her prophets are light and treacherous persons; her priests have profaned the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.

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