For [no matter] how many promises God has made, in Christ [the answer] is "yes" [i.e., Christ has fulfilled all of God's promises to mankind]. Also, through Christ, the "amen" [Note: This word is always translated elsewhere as "May it be so"] can be said by us in order to honor God.

But thanks be to God, who disposed Titus to be so industrious for you.

I am not going too far in my boasting, and actually boasting of other men's labors, but I am cherishing the hope that your faith may so continue to grow that through you my work within my sphere may be so enlarged as to run over,

as if I was inferior to them. but whatever they pretend to, (I must be so vain) I pretend to the like.

But let it be so, that I was not a trouble to you myself; but (someone may say) being false, I took you with deceit.