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2 Corinthians 1:17 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" When I therefore planned this, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I plan, do I plan according to the flesh, that with me there should be the “Yes, yes” and the “No, no?” "

2 Corinthians 1:17

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15 In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit,

16 and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be sent forward by you on my journey to Judea.

17 When I therefore planned this, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I plan, do I plan according to the flesh, that with me there should be the “Yes, yes” and the “No, no?”

18 But as God is faithful, our word toward you was not “Yes and no.”

19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us—by me, Silvanus, and Timothy—was not “Yes and no,” but in him is “Yes.”

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2 Corinthians 1:1

"Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:"

2 Corinthians 1:2

"Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ."

2 Corinthians 1:3

"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,"

2 Corinthians 1:4

"who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God."

2 Corinthians 1:5

"For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ."

2 Corinthians 1:6

"But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer."

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