2 Corinthians 1:18 - Exposition

But as God is true; rather, but God is faithful, whatever man may be ( 1 Corinthians 1:9 ; 1 Corinthians 10:13 ; 1 Thessalonians 5:24 ; 2 Thessalonians 3:3 ; 1 John 1:9 ). Our word towards you, etc. The verse should be rendered, But God is faithful, because (faithful herein, that) our preaching to you proved itself to be not yea and may . Whatever you may say of my plans and my conduct, there was one thing which involved an indubitable "yea," namely, my preaching to you. In that, at any rate, there was nothing capricious, nothing variable, nothing vacillating. St. Paul, in a manner characteristic to his moods of deepest emotion, "goes off at a word." The Corinthians talked of his "yea" and "nay" as though one was little better than the other, and neither could be depended on; well, at any rate, one thing, and that the most essential, was as sure as the faithfulness of God.