14. as you have partially understood us — that we are your reason for pride, as you are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.
15. I planned with this confidence to come to you first, so you could have a double benefit,
16. and to go on to Macedonia with your help, then come to you again from Macedonia and be given a start by you on my journey to Judea.
17. So when I planned this, was I irresponsible? Or what I plan, do I plan in a purely human way so that I say “Yes, yes” and “No, no” simultaneously?
18. As God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes and no.”