But as God is faithful, our word to you is not yes and no.

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

but we have renounced the things hidden because of shame, not walking in craftiness or adulterating the word of God, but by the manifestation of 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 counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation.

in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and the left,

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