King James Version
2 Corinthians 1:18 in the King James Version says “But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay. word: or, preaching” — study this verse from 2 Corinthians chapter 1 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay. word: or, preaching”
2 Corinthians 1:18 · KJV
And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judaea.
When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay?
But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay. word: or, preaching
For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea.
For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“as God”
G2316a deity, especially (with g3588) the supreme divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; exceedingly (by hebraism)
“word”
G3056something said (including the thought); by implication, a topic (subject of discourse), also reasoning (the mental faculty) or motive; by extension, a
“toward”
G4314a preposition of direction; forward to, i.e., toward (with the genitive case, the side of, i.e., pertaining to; with the dative case, by the side of,
“was”
G1096to cause to be ("gen"-erate), i.e., (reflexively) to become (come into being), used with great latitude (literal, figurative, intensive, etc.)
“and”
G2532and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words
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