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?
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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.
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.
12 And above all, my brothers and sisters, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath. But let your“Yes” be yes and your“No” be no, so that you may not fall into judgment.
1 So I made up my own mind not to pay you another painful visit.
37 Let your word be‘Yes, yes’ or‘No, no.’ More than this is from the evil one.
16 But be that as it may, I have not burdened you. Yet because I was a crafty person, I took you in by deceit!
17 I have not taken advantage of you through anyone I have sent to you, have I?
18 I urged Titus to visit you and I sent our brother along with him. Titus did not take advantage of you, did he? Did we not conduct ourselves in the same spirit? Did we not behave in the same way?
9 When I was with you and was in need, I was not a burden to anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia fully supplied my needs. I kept myself from being a burden to you in any way, and will continue to do so.
23 Why Paul Postponed His Visit Now I appeal to God as my witness, that to spare you I did not come again to Corinth.
12 And what I am doing I will continue to do, so that I may eliminate any opportunity for those who want a chance to be regarded as our equals in the things they boast about.
6 and perhaps I will stay with you, or even spend the winter, so that you can send me on my journey, wherever I go.
4 For if any of the Macedonians should come with me and find that you are not ready to give, we would be humiliated(not to mention you) by this confidence we had in you.
5 Therefore I thought it necessary to urge these brothers to go to you in advance and to arrange ahead of time the generous contribution you had promised, so this may be ready as a generous gift and not as something you feel forced to do.
14 However, without your consent I did not want to do anything, so that your good deed would not be out of compulsion, but from your own willingness.
2 now I ask that when I am present I may not have to be bold with the confidence that(I expect) I will dare to use against some who consider us to be behaving according to human standards.
10 So here is my opinion on this matter: It is to your advantage, since you made a good start last year both in your giving and your desire to give,
11 to finish what you started, so that just as you wanted to do it eagerly, you can also complete it according to your means.
10 Am I now trying to gain the approval of people, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ!
20 And in this way I desire to preach where Christ has not been named, so as not to build on another person’s foundation,
15 Inheritance Comes from Promises and not Law Brothers and sisters, I offer an example from everyday life: When a covenant has been ratified, even though it is only a human contract, no one can set it aside or add anything to it.
9 For this reason also I wrote you: to test you to see if you are obedient in everything.
12 Paul Defends His Changed Plans For our reason for confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that with pure motives and sincerity which are from God– not by human wisdom but by the grace of God– we conducted ourselves in the world, and all the more toward you.
10 and I always ask in my prayers, if perhaps now at last I may succeed in visiting you according to the will of God.
14 But when I saw that they were not behaving consistently with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all,“If you, although you are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you try to force the Gentiles to live like Jews?”
20 I assure you that, before God, I am not lying about what I am writing to you!
3 And I wrote this very thing to you, so that when I came I would not have sadness from those who ought to make me rejoice, since I am confident in you all that my joy would be yours.
1 Israel’s Rejection Considered I am telling the truth in Christ(I am not lying!), for my conscience assures me in the Holy Spirit–
8 Paul’s Request for Onesimus So, although I have quite a lot of confidence in Christ and could command you to do what is proper,
16 to reveal his Son in me so that I could preach him among the Gentiles, I did not go to ask advice from any human being,
18 What is the result? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is being proclaimed, and in this I rejoice.Yes, and I will continue to rejoice,
10 I am confident in the Lord that you will accept no other view. But the one who is confusing you will pay the penalty, whoever he may be.
21 For we are concerned about what is right not only before the Lord but also before men.
11 Let such a person consider this: What we say by letters when we are absent, we also are in actions when we are present.
5 For I consider myself not at all inferior to those“super-apostles.”
5 For we never appeared with flattering speech, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed– God is our witness–
10 They requested only that we remember the poor, the very thing I also was eager to do.
4 – though mine too are significant. If someone thinks he has good reasons to put confidence in human credentials, I have more:
15 But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing these things so that something will be done for me. In fact, it would be better for me to die than– no one will deprive me of my reason for boasting!
13 I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that I often intended to come to you(and was prevented until now), so that I may have some fruit even among you, just as I already have among the rest of the Gentiles.
8 I am not saying this as a command, but I am testing the genuineness of your love by comparison with the eagerness of others.
7 Or did I commit a sin by humbling myself so that you could be exalted, because I proclaimed the gospel of God to you free of charge?
21 Since I was confident that you would obey, I wrote to you, because I knew that you would do even more than what I am asking you to do.
6 For even if I wish to boast, I will not be a fool, for I would be telling the truth, but I refrain from this so that no one may regard me beyond what he sees in me or what he hears from me,
16 This is the reason I do my best to always have a clear conscience toward God and toward people.
11 Whether then it was I or they, this is the way we preach and this is the way you believed.
11 For see what this very thing, this sadness as God intended, has produced in you: what eagerness, what defense of yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what deep concern, what punishment! In everything you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter.