2 Corinthians 1:13-24

13For we do not write other things to you but what ye well know and recognise; and I hope that ye will recognise to the end, 14even as also ye have recognised us in part, that we are your boast, even as ye [are] ours in the day of the Lord Jesus. 15And with this confidence I purposed to come to you previously, that ye might have a second favour; 16and to pass through to Macedonia by you, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be set forward by you to Judaea. 17Having therefore this purpose, did I then use lightness? Or what I purpose, do I purpose according to flesh, that there should be with me yea yea, and nay nay? 18Now 1God [is] faithful, that our word to you is not yea and nay. 19For the Son of 2God, Jesus Christ, he who has been preached by us among you (by me and Silvanus and Timotheus), did not become yea and nay, but yea is in him. 20For whatever promises of 3God [there are], in him is the yea, and in him the amen, for glory to 4God by us. 21Now he that establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us, [is] 5God, 22who also has sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts. 23But I call 6God to witness upon my soul that to spare you I have not yet come to Corinth. 24Not that we rule over your faith, but are fellow-workmen of your joy: for by faith ye stand.