But as God is faithful, our word toward you was not "Yes and no."

For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.

in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such are we also in deed when we are present.

This is the third time I am coming to you. "At the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established."