15 In this confidence I planned to come to you before, that you might have a second benefit:
16 to visit you while going to Macedonia, and to come again to you from Macedonia, and then be sent by you on my way to Judea.
17 Therefore, when I was planning this, did I do this lightly? Or the things that I plan, do I plan according to the flesh, so that I would tell you “Yes, yes” and “No, no”?
18 But as God is true, we did not tell you “Yes” and “No.”
19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by Silas, Timothy, and me, was not “Yes” and “No.” In Him it was “Yes.”
20 For all the promises of God in Him are “Yes,” and in Him “Amen,” to the glory of God through us.
21 Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us is God,