Was it vacillating of me to want to do that? Do I make my plans like a worldly man, ready to say "Yes" and "No" in the same breath?

For if I was out of my senses, as they say, it was between God and me; and if I am in my right mind, it is for your good.

For he says, "I have listened to you at a welcome time, And helped you on a day of deliverance!" Now the welcome time has come! This is the day of deliverance!

Therefore, "Come out from them, And separate from them, says the Lord, And touch nothing that is unclean. Then I will welcome you,

I will become a father to you, And you shall become my sons and daughters, Says the Lord Almighty."

but to equalize the burden, and in the present situation to have your plenty make up for what they need, so that some day their plenty may make up for what you need, and so things may be made equal??15 as the Scripture says, "The man who got much did not have too much, and the man who got little did not have too little."

for if some people from Macedonia come with me, and find that you are not ready, it will humiliate me??o say nothing of you??or having expressed such confidence.

as the Scripture says, "He scatters his gifts to the poor; His uprightness will never be forgotten."

For they say, "His letters are impressive and telling, but his personal appearance is insignificant and as a speaker he amounts to nothing."

Such people had better understand that when I arrive and take action I will do just as I say I will in my letters when I am far away.

When I boast in this reckless way, I do not say what I am saying for the Lord, but as a fool would talk.

But granting that I did not burden you myself, I was clever about it, you say, and took you in by a trick.