2 Corinthians 1:18
Good News Translation
As surely as God speaks the truth, my promise to you was not a "Yes" and a "No."

New Revised Standard Version
As surely as God is faithful, our word to you has not been “Yes and No.”

Contemporary English Version
God can be trusted, and so can I, when I say our answer to you has always been "Yes" and never "No."

New American Bible
As God is faithful, our word to you is not “yes” and “no.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
But God is faithful: for our preaching which was to you, was not, It is, and It is not.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But God is faithful: for our preaching which was to you, was not, It is, and It is not.

as.

2 Corinthians 1:23 But I call God to witness upon my soul that to spare you, I came not any more to Corinth: not because we exercise dominion over your faith: but we are helpers of your joy. For in faith you stand.

2 Corinthians 11:31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed for ever, knoweth that I lie not.

John 7:28 Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying: You both know me, and you know whence I am. And I am not come of myself: but he that sent me is true, whom you know not.

John 8:26 Many things I have to speak and to judge of you. But he that sent me, is true: and the things I have heard of him, these same I speak in the world.

1 John 5:20 And we know that the Son of God is come. And he hath given us understanding that we may know the true God and may be in his true Son. This is the true God and life eternal.

Revelation 3:7,14 And to the angel of the church of Philadelphia write: These things saith the Holy One and the true one, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth and no man shutteth, shutteth and no man openeth: . . .

word.

Context
Paul's Change of Plans
17Whereas then I was thus minded, did I use lightness? Or, the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that there should be with me, It is, and It is not? 18But God is faithful: for our preaching which was to you, was not, It is, and It is not. 19For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, by me and Sylvanus and Timothy, was not: It is and It is not. But, It is, was in him.…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 1:9
God is faithful: by whom you are called unto the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

2 Corinthians 2:17
For we are not as many, adulterating the word of God: but with sincerity: but as from God, before God, in Christ we speak.

2 Corinthians 6:8
By honour and dishonour: by evil report and good report: as deceivers and yet true: as unknown and yet known:

2 Corinthians 1:17
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