2 Corinthians 1
1:1Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, and Timothy the brother, to the assembly of God, to the one being in Corinth, with all the holy ones, to the ones being in all Achaia.
1:2Favor to you and peace from God our father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
1:3Blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the father of the compassions, and God of all comfort;
1:4the one comforting us in all our affliction, for the enabling us to comfort the ones in every affliction, through the consolation of which we are comforted in ourselves by God.
1:5For as the sufferings of the Christ abound in us, so through Christ our comfort also abounds.
1:6But whether we are afflicted for your comfort and deliverance of the one being energized in the endurance of the same sufferings, which also we suffer,
1:7(and our hope is firm for you;) or whether we are comforted, it is for your comfort and deliverance; knowing that as you are partners of the sufferings, so also of the comfort.
1:8For we do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, as to our affliction, of the one happening to us in Asia, that we were weighed down in excess beyond power, so as for us to be destitute even of living.
1:9But we have had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not be relying upon ourselves, but upon God, the one raising the dead.
1:10Who from out of such a death rescued us, and does rescue; in whom we have hope that also still he shall rescue;
1:11working along with you also for us by supplication, that by many persons the favor to us should be for giving thanks through many for you.
1:12For this is our boasting -- the testimony of our conscience, that in singleness and honesty of God, (not in fleshy wisdom, but by favor of God) we behaved in the world, and more exceedingly to you.
1:13For not another thing do we write to you, other than what you read or also recognize; and I hope that even until the end you will recognize;
1:14as also you recognized us in part; for we are your boasting, just as also you are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.
1:15And in this reliance I was wanting to come to you prior, that a second favor you should have;
1:16and by you to go through into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and by you to be sent forward into Judea.
1:17This then planning, lest anything did I treat it in lightness? or what I planned, did I plan according to the flesh that there might be by me the yes, yes, and the no, no?
1:18But trustworthy is God, that our word to you became not yes and no.
1:19For the son of God, Jesus Christ, the one among you being proclaimed by us, (by me and Silas and Timothy,) was not yes and no, but became yes in him.
1:20For as many promises of God there are, in him is the yes, and in him the amen to God for glory by us.
1:21And the one firming us with you unto Christ, and having anointed us, is God;
1:22even the one setting a seal upon us, and having given the deposit of the spirit in our hearts.
1:23And I call upon God as witness upon my soul, that sparing you, no longer did I come to Corinth.
1:24Not that we dominate of the belief of yours, but we are fellow-workers of your joy; for in the belief you stand.