As surely as God is faithful, our word to you has not been Yes and No.
God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
“And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: ‘The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God's creation.
“And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: ‘The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens.
And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.
For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God's word, but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.
But I call God to witness against me—it was to spare you that I refrained from coming again to Corinth.
I have much to say about you and much to judge, but he who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him.”
So Jesus proclaimed, as he taught in the temple, “You know me, and you know where I come from. But I have not come of my own accord. He who sent me is true, and him you do not know.
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