2 Corinthians 1:20
Good News Translation
for it is he who is the "Yes" to all of God's promises. This is why through Jesus Christ our "Amen" is said to the glory of God.

New Revised Standard Version
For in him every one of God’s promises is a “Yes.” For this reason it is through him that we say the “Amen,” to the glory of God.

Contemporary English Version
Christ says "Yes" to all God's promises. This is why we have Christ to say "Amen" for us to the glory of God.

New American Bible
For however many are the promises of God, their Yes is in him; therefore, the Amen from us also goes through him to God for glory.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For all the promises of God are in him, It is. Therefore also by him, amen to God, unto our glory.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For all the promises of God are in him, It is. Therefore also by him, amen to God, unto our glory.

all.

Genesis 3:15 I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel.

Genesis 22:18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my voice.

Genesis 49:10 The sceptre shall not be taken away from Juda, nor a ruler from his thigh, till he come that is to be sent, and he shall be the expectation of nations.

Psalm 72:17 Let his name be blessed for evermore: his name continueth before the sun. And in him shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed: all nations shall magnify him.

Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign. Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son and his name shall be called Emmanuel.

Isaiah 9:6,7 For a CHILD IS BORN to us, and a son is given to us, and the government is upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, God the Mighty, the Father of the world to come, the Prince of Peace. . . .

Luke 1:68-74 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel: because he hath visited and wrought the redemption of his people. . . .

John 1:17 For the law was given by Moses: grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

John 14:6 Jesus saith to him: I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father, but by me.

Acts 3:25,26 You are the children of the prophets and of the testament which God made to our fathers, saying to Abraham: And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed. . . .

Acts 13:32-39 And we declare unto you that the promise which was made to our fathers, . . .

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death. But the grace of God, life everlasting in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 15:8,9 For I say that Christ Jesus was minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers: . . .

Galatians 3:16-18,22 To Abraham were the promises made and to his seed. He saith not: And to his seeds as of many. But as of one: And to thy seed, which is Christ. . . .

Hebrews 6:12-19 That you become not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience shall inherit the promises. . . .

Hebrews 7:6 But he, whose pedigree is not numbered among them, received tithes of Abraham and blessed him that had the promises.

Hebrews 9:10-15 And divers washings and justices of the flesh laid on them until the time of correction. . . .

Hebrews 11:13,39,40 All these died according to faith, not having received the promises but beholding them afar off and saluting them and confessing that they are pilgrims and strangers on the earth. . . .

Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ, yesterday, and today: and the same for ever.

1 John 2:24,25 As for you, let that which you have heard from the beginning abide in you. If that abide in you, which you have heard from the beginning, you also shall abide in the Son and in the Father. . . .

1 John 5:11 And this is the testimony that God hath given to us eternal life. And this life is in his Son.

Amen.

Isaiah 65:16 In which he that is blessed upon the earth, shall be blessed in God, amen: and he that sweareth in the earth, shall swear by God, amen: because the former distresses are forgotten, and because they are hid from my eyes.

*Heb:

John 3:5 Jesus answered: Amen, amen, I say to thee, unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

*Gr:

Revelation 3:14 And to the angel of the church of Laodicea write: These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, who is the beginning of the creation of God:

unto.

2 Corinthians 4:6,15 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Christ Jesus. . . .

Psalm 102:16 For the Lord hath built up Sion: and he shall be seen in his glory.

Matthew 6:13 And lead us not into temptation. But deliver us from evil. Amen.

Luke 2:14 Glory to God in the highest: and on earth peace to men of good will.

Romans 11:36 For of him, and by him, and in him, are all things: to him be glory for ever. Amen.

Romans 15:7 Wherefore, receive one another, as Christ also hath received you, unto the honour of God.

Ephesians 1:6,12-14 Unto the praise of the glory of his grace, in which he hath graced us, in his beloved son. . . .

Ephesians 2:7 That he might shew in the ages to come the abundant riches of his grace, in his bounty towards us in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 3:8-10 To me, the least of all the saints, is given this grace, to preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ: . . .

Colossians 1:27 To whom God would make known the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ, in you the hope of glory.

2 Thessalonians 1:10 When he shall come to be glorified in his saints and to be made wonderful in all them who have believed; because our testimony was believed upon you in that day.

1 Peter 1:12 To whom it was revealed that, not to themselves but to you, they ministered those things which are now declared to you by them that have preached the gospel to you: the Holy Ghost being sent down from heaven, on whom the angels desire to look.

Revelation 7:12 Saying: Amen. Benediction and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving, honour and power and strength, to our God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Context
Paul's Change of Plans
19For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, by me and Sylvanus and Timothy, was not: It is and It is not. But, It is, was in him. 20For all the promises of God are in him, It is. Therefore also by him, amen to God, unto our glory. 21Now he that confirmeth us with you in Christ and that hath anointed us, is God:…
Cross References
Romans 15:8
For I say that Christ Jesus was minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:

1 Corinthians 14:16
Else, if thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that holdeth the place of the unlearned say, Amen, to thy blessing? Because he knoweth not what thou sayest.

Hebrews 13:8
Jesus Christ, yesterday, and today: and the same for ever.

Revelation 3:14
And to the angel of the church of Laodicea write: These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, who is the beginning of the creation of God:

2 Corinthians 1:19
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