1:17 我有此意，岂是反复不定吗。我所起的意，岂是从情欲起的，叫我忽是忽非吗。
1:18 我指着信实的神说，我们向你们所传的道，并没有是而又非的。
1:19 因为我和西拉，并提摩太，在你们中间所传神的儿子耶稣基督，总没有是而又非的，在他只有一是。
1:20 神的应许，不论有多少，在基督都是是的，所以藉着他也都是实在的，（实在原文作阿们）叫神因我们得荣耀。
1:21 那在基督里坚固我们和你们，并且膏我们的，就是神。
1:22 他又用印印了我们，并赐圣灵在我们心里作凭据。（原文作质）。
17When I planned this, did I do it lightly? Or do I make my plans in a worldly manner so that in the same breath I say, “Yes, yes” and “No, no”?
18But as surely as God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes” and “No.”
19For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by me and Silas and Timothy, was not “Yes” and “No,” but in him it has always been “Yes.”
20For no matter how many promises God has made, they are “Yes” in Christ. And so through him the “Amen” is spoken by us to the glory of God.
21Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us,
22set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.