King James Version (KJV)
2 Corinthians 1:17
“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?”
Verse in context — 2 Corinthians 1
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And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit;
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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.
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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?
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But [as] God [is] true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.
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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.
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