2 Corinthians 1:17

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

This, therefore, counselling, did I then use the lightness; or the things that I counsel, according to the flesh do I counsel, that it may be with me Yes, yes, and No, no?

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Cor 10:2-3 : 2 and I beseech `you', that, being present, I may not have courage, with the confidence with which I reckon to be bold against certain reckoning us as walking according to the flesh; 3 for walking in the flesh, not according to the flesh do we war,
  • Matt 5:37 : 37 but let your word be, Yes, Yes, No, No, and that which is more than these is of the evil.
  • John 8:15 : 15 `Ye according to the flesh do judge; I do not judge any one,
  • 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we did conduct ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;
  • 2 Cor 1:18-20 : 18 and God `is' faithful, that our word unto you became not Yes and No, 19 for the Son of God, Jesus Christ, among you through us having been preached -- through me and Silvanus and Timotheus -- did not become Yes and No, but in him it hath become Yes; 20 for as many as `are' promises of God, in him `are' the Yes, and in him the Amen, for glory to God through us;
  • Gal 1:16 : 16 to reveal His Son in me, that I might proclaim him good news among the nations, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood,
  • Gal 2:2 : 2 and I went up by revelation, and did submit to them the good news that I preach among the nations, and privately to those esteemed, lest in vain I might run or did run;
  • 1 Thess 2:18 : 18 wherefore we wished to come unto you, (I indeed Paul,) both once and again, and the Adversary did hinder us;
  • Jas 5:12 : 12 And before all things, my brethren, do not swear, neither by the heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath, and let your Yes be Yes, and the No, No; that under judgment ye may not fall.
  • Judg 9:4 : 4 and they give to him seventy silverings out of the house of Baal-Berith, and Abimelech hireth with them men, vain and unstable, and they go after him;
  • Jer 23:32 : 32 Lo, I `am' against the prophets of false dreams, An affirmation of Jehovah, And they recount them, and cause my people to err, By their falsehoods, and by their instability, And I -- I have not sent them, Nor have I commanded them, And they are not at all profitable to this people, An affirmation of Jehovah.
  • Zeph 3:4 : 4 Her prophets unstable -- men of treachery, Her priests have polluted the sanctuary, They have violated the law.

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    18and God `is' faithful, that our word unto you became not Yes and No,

    19for the Son of God, Jesus Christ, among you through us having been preached -- through me and Silvanus and Timotheus -- did not become Yes and No, but in him it hath become Yes;

    20for as many as `are' promises of God, in him `are' the Yes, and in him the Amen, for glory to God through us;

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    15and in this confidence I was purposing to come unto you before, that a second favour ye might have,

    16and through you to pass to Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come unto you, and by you to be sent forward to Judea.

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    12And before all things, my brethren, do not swear, neither by the heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath, and let your Yes be Yes, and the No, No; that under judgment ye may not fall.

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    37but let your word be, Yes, Yes, No, No, and that which is more than these is of the evil.

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    16And be it `so', I -- I did not burden you, but being crafty, with guile I did take you;

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    9and being present with you, and having been in want, I was chargeable to no one, for my lack did the brethren supply -- having come from Macedonia -- and in everything burdenless to you I did keep myself, and will keep.

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    12and what I do, I also will do, that I may cut off the occasion of those wishing an occasion, that in that which they boast they may be found according as we also;

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    6and with you, it may be, I will abide, or even winter, that ye may send me forward whithersoever I go,

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    14and apart from thy mind I willed to do nothing, that as of necessity thy good deed may not be, but of willingness,

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    2and I beseech `you', that, being present, I may not have courage, with the confidence with which I reckon to be bold against certain reckoning us as walking according to the flesh;

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    10and an opinion in this do I give: for this to you `is' expedient, who not only to do, but also to will, did begin before -- a year ago,

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    10for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please -- Christ's servant I should not be.

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    12For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we did conduct ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;

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    16and in this I do exercise myself, to have a conscience void of offence toward God and men always.

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