2 Corinthians 1

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?

When I therefore was thus minded, and yet did not accordingly perform it, was it out of any levity, or inconstancy and unsteadiness to my own resolutions? or do I contrive my purposes and determinations out of carnal respects, that, according to the occasion of more profit or more ease, I should alter them? and that I should say and unsay, at pleasure; promising and retracting, as advantage served?

2 Corinthians 1:18

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

But I call the Only True God to witness, that neither this purpose and engagement of mine, nor any word of my preaching amongst you, hath been false, double, variable, deceitful.

2 Corinthians 1:19

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

For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, &c. was so preached to you by us, as with one ever firm and constant asseveration of the truth by us delivered concerning him, we did not vary our note; one while affirming that of him, which another while we denied; but we ever continued immoveable and unchangeable, in the same doctrines.

2 Corinthians 1:20

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

Otherwise, we should not have faithfully delivered this holy errand, that is committed to us: for, certainly, all the promises of God in the Gospel, (which are the matter of our message,) are in him fully and immutably performed; and so are proclaimed and justified to the world by us, unto the praise and glory of God.

2 Corinthians 1:21

Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God.

Now he, that doth confirm and establish both you and us, in the faith and profession of his undoubted truth of Christ our Lord, and in an unchangeable and unremoveable adherence to him, and who hath anointed us with the precious oil of his spiritual grace is God only.

2 Corinthians 1:22

Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

Who hath also sealed us up for his; and, as it is wont to be done in bargains, that the earnest given in hand binds the contract, so hath he made our salvation sure, by giving to us before-hand the earnest of his Spirit in our hearts.

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.

Moreover, I call God to bear witness with my soul, of the c c 2 truth which I affirm; and to take punishment upon my soul if I affirm ought but the truth; that only out of respects to you, I forbore to come, as yet, to Corinth; lest, finding matters amiss and yet unreformed, I should have been forced to use my Apostolical authority amongst you, in such severity, as would have seemed very harsh unto you.

2 Corinthians 1:24

Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.

But, when I speak of sparing you, let no man think that we meant ever so to take upon us, as if we would be imperious, and overrule you in matter of faith and religion, at our pleasure; but only, that we would endeavour your reformation, and therein be helpers forward of your joy: as for your faith, it is not either in our will or in our power to shake or stir it; for that is it, whereby ye do and must stand; so as it neither is nor can be subject to the command or alteration of men.