2Cor 1:15-19 | PNT | STEP | In this confidence . Of their acknowledgment of his apostleship and rejoicing in him. I was minded to come unto you before . Before going to Macedonia, sailing straight across from Ephesus to Corinth. That ye might have a second benefit . Two visits, one as Paul went to Macedonia, and one on his return. All this is explained in .

2 Corinthians 1:15-19

In this confidence. Of their acknowledgment of his apostleship and rejoicing in him.

I was minded to come unto you before. Before going to Macedonia, sailing straight across from Ephesus to Corinth.

That ye might have a second benefit. Two visits, one as Paul went to Macedonia, and one on his return. All this is explained in 2Co 1:16. When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? Some of his detractors at Corinth had urged from his change of plans that he was fickle, or that he made ambiguous promises, and was ready to break them. His original plan was probably conveyed in the letter which has not come down to us (1Co 5:9). He declared his change of plans in 1Co 16:5.

Do I purpose according to the flesh? In a carnal way.

That with me there be yea, yea, and nay, nay? So that there should be a readiness to turn a "yea" into a "nay"; that is, no fixed purpose to do as promised. Our word toward you was not yea and nay. That is, ambiguous and unreliable. For the Son of God . . . was not yea and nay. The idea is that there was no vacillation and uncertainty about Paul's preaching when he was in Corinth.

But in him was yea. There was positive affirmation.