8 For ^lGod is my witness, how I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus.

5 For we never came with words of flattery,¹ as you know, nor with a pretext for greed—^fGod is witness.

10 ^oYou are witnesses, and God also, how holy and righteous and blameless was our conduct toward you believers.

God’s Sovereign Choice

1 ^sI am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit—

23 But ^eI call God to witness against me—^fit was to spare you that I refrained from coming again to Corinth.

10 ^fAs the truth of Christ is in me, this ^gboasting of mine will not be silenced in the regions of Achaia.

31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed forever, knows that ^zI am not lying.