2nd Corinthians Chapter 1 verse 18 Holy Bible
But as God is faithful, our word toward you is not yea and nay.
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As God is true, our word to you is not Yes and No.
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Now God [is] faithful, that our word to you is not yea and nay.
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But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.
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But as God is faithful, our word toward you was not "Yes and no."
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and God `is' faithful, that our word unto you became not Yes and No,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 18. - But as God is true; rather, but God is faithful, whatever man may be (1 Corinthians 1:9; 1 Corinthians 10:13; 1 Thessalonians 5:24; 2 Thessalonians 3:3; 1 John 1:9). Our word towards you, etc. The verse should be rendered, But God is faithful, because (faithful herein, that) our preaching to you proved itself to be not yea and may. Whatever you may say of my plans and my conduct, there was one thing which involved an indubitable "yea," namely, my preaching to you. In that, at any rate, there was nothing capricious, nothing variable, nothing vacillating. St. Paul, in a manner characteristic to his moods of deepest emotion, "goes off at a word." The Corinthians talked of his "yea" and "nay" as though one was little better than the other, and neither could be depended on; well, at any rate, one thing, and that the most essential, was as sure as the faithfulness of God.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(18) As God is true.--Literally, as God is faithful. The words were one of St. Paul's usual formulae of assertion. (Comp. 1Corinthians 1:9; 1Corinthians 10:13; 2Thessalonians 3:3.) In other instances it is followed commonly by a statement as to some act or attribute of God. Here it is more of the nature of an oath: "As God is faithful in all His words, so my speech" (the vague term is used to include preaching, writing, personal intercourse) "is true and faithful also." There had been no "Yes" and "No" in the same breath; no saying one thing when he meant another.