ISV(i)
18 As certainly as God is faithful, we haven’t talked to you with mixed messages like that.
19 For God’s Son, Jesus the Messiah, who was preached among you by us—by me, Silvanus, and Timothy—was not “Yes” and “No.” But with him it is always “Yes.”
20 For all God’s promises are “Yes” in him. And so through him we can say “Amen,” to the glory of God.
21 Now the one who makes us—and you as well—secure in union with the Messiah and has anointed us is God,
22 who has placed his seal on us and has given us the Spirit in our hearts as a down payment.
23 I call upon God as a witness on my behalf that it was in order to spare you that I did not return to Corinth. 24 It is not that we are trying to rule over your faith, but rather to work with you for your joy, because you have been standing firm in the faith.
23 I call upon God as a witness on my behalf that it was in order to spare you that I did not return to Corinth. 24 It is not that we are trying to rule over your faith, but rather to work with you for your joy, because you have been standing firm in the faith.