15Because I was confident of this, I planned to visit you first so that you might benefit twice.
15Because I was confident of this, I planned to visit you first so that you might benefit twice.
12 Now this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in our relations with you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God. We have done so not according to worldly wisdom but according to God's grace.
13 For we do not write you anything you cannot read or understand. And I hope that,
14 as you have understood us in part, you will come to understand fully that you can boast of us just as we will boast of you in the day of the Lord Jesus.
15 Because I was confident of this, I planned to visit you first so that you might benefit twice.
16 I planned to visit you on my way to Macedonia and to come back to you from Macedonia, and then to have you send me on my way to Judea.
17 When 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"?
1:15And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit;
1:15And with this confidence I purposed to come to you previously, that ye might have a second favour;
1:15And in this confidence I had a mind to come to you before, that you might have a second grace:
1:15And in this confidence I was minded to come first unto you, that ye might have a second benefit;
1:15And in this confidence I was minded to come before unto you, that ye might have a second benefit;
1:15And in this confidence I purposed to come to you before, that ye might have a second benefit;
1:15In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit;
1:15and in this confidence I was purposing to come unto you before, that a second favour ye might have,
1:15And in this confidence I was minded to come to you before, that you might have a second benefit;