12 For this is our confidence: The testimony of our conscience is that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, with God-given sincerity and purity, not by fleshly wisdom but by God’s grace.
13 Now we are writing nothing to you other than what you can read and also understand. I hope you will understand completely —
14 as you have partially understood us — that we are your reason for pride, as you are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.
15 I planned with this confidence to come to you first, so you could have a double benefit,
16 and to go on to Macedonia with your help, then come to you again from Macedonia and be given a start by you on my journey to Judea.
17 So when I planned this, was I irresponsible? Or what I plan, do I plan in a purely human way so that I say “Yes, yes” and “No, no” simultaneously?
18 As God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes and no.”