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2 Corinthians 1:18

God's faithfulnessTruth and honesty

16 And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judaea.

17 When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay?

But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.

19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea.

20 For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.

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Compare

BSB
But as surely as God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes” and “No.”
KJV
But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.
WEB
But as God is faithful, our word toward you was not “Yes and no.”
ASV
But as God is faithful, our word toward you is not yea and nay.
DARBY
Now God [is] faithful, that our word to you is not yea and nay.
BLB
But faithful [is] God, that our word to you⁺ is not “Yes” and “No.”
ÅB
Så sant Gud er trofast: mitt ord til dere er ikke ja og nei!
OTB
Men Gud er trofast, vårt ord til dere er ikke "Ja og nei."
B1930
Så sant Gud er trofast: mitt ord til eder er ikke ja og nei!

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Cross references

  • 1 Corinthians 1:9

    God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

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  • Revelation 3:7

    And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;

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  • Revelation 3:14

    And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;

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  • John 7:28

    Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am: and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not.

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  • 2 Corinthians 11:31

    The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.

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  • 2 Corinthians 1:23

    Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.

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  • 2 Corinthians 2:17

    For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.

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  • John 8:26

    I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him.

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