Parallel Verses
King James Version
But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.
New American Standard Bible
But as
Holman Bible
As God is faithful,
International Standard Version
As certainly as God is faithful, we haven't talked to you with mixed messages like that.
A Conservative Version
But God is faithful, because our word toward you became not, yes and no.
American Standard Version
But as God is faithful, our word toward you is not yea and nay.
Amplified
But [as surely as] God is faithful and means what He says, our message to you is not “Yes” and “No” [at the same time].
An Understandable Version
But just as certainly as God is dependable, our message to you is not [both] "yes" and "no" [at the same time].
Anderson New Testament
But God is true; for our preaching to you was not yes and no:
Bible in Basic English
As God is true, our word to you is not Yes and No.
Common New Testament
But as surely as God is faithful, our word to you has not been Yes and No.
Daniel Mace New Testament
God is my witness, I never prevaricated with you.
Darby Translation
Now God is faithful, that our word to you is not yea and nay.
Godbey New Testament
But God is faithful, that our word which is to you is not yes and no.
Goodspeed New Testament
As surely as God can be relied on, there has been no equivocation about our message to you.
John Wesley New Testament
As God is faithful, our word to you hath not been yea and nay.
Julia Smith Translation
And God faithful, for our word to you was not yea or nay.
King James 2000
But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.
Lexham Expanded Bible
But God [is] faithful, so that our word to you is not "yes" and "no."
Modern King James verseion
But as God is true, our word toward you was not yes and no.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
God is faithful: For our preaching unto you, was not "yea" and "nay."
Moffatt New Testament
By the good faith of God, my word to you was not 'yes and no';
Montgomery New Testament
As God is faithful, my message to you is not now "Yes," now "No."
NET Bible
But as God is faithful, our message to you is not "Yes" and "No."
New Heart English Bible
But as God is faithful, our word toward you is not "Yes and no."
Noyes New Testament
But as God is faithful, our word to you is not yea and nay.
Sawyer New Testament
But as God is faithful, our word to you was not yes and no.
The Emphasized Bible
Faithful, however, is God, in that, our discourse, which was delivered unto you, is not Yea and Nay;
Thomas Haweis New Testament
But as sure as God is true, our word to you was not yea and nay.
Twentieth Century New Testament
As God is true, the Message that we brought you does not waver between 'Yes' and 'No'!
Webster
But as God is true, our word towards you was not yea and nay.
Weymouth New Testament
As certainly as God is faithful, our language to you is not now "Yes" and now "No."
Williams New Testament
As certainly as God is to be trusted, my message to you has not been a "Yes" that might mean "No."
World English Bible
But as God is faithful, our word toward you was not "Yes and no."
Worrell New Testament
But, as God is faithful, our word to you is not "Yea" and "Nay."
Worsley New Testament
But the faithful God, He knows, that our word to you was not yes and no.
Youngs Literal Translation
and God is faithful, that our word unto you became not Yes and No,
Interlinear
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References
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Word Count of 37 Translations in 2 Corinthians 1:18
Images 2 Corinthians 1:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Paul Delays His Visit To Corinth
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? 18 But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay. 19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
1 Corinthians 1:9
God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
John 7:28
Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am: and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not.
John 8:26
I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him.
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.
2 Corinthians 2:17
For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:31
The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.
1 John 5:20
And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
Revelation 3:7
And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;
Revelation 3:14
And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;