2 Corinthians 1

1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timothy the brother, to the congregation of God that is at Corinth, with all the sanctified who are in the whole of Achaia.

2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,

Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all encouragement,

4 who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

who encourages us in all our affliction, in order for us to be able to encourage those in every affliction, through the encouragement of which we ourselves are encouraged by God.

5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.

Because, as the sufferings of the Christ abound to us, so also our encouragement abounds through the Christ.

6 But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.

But whether we are oppressed, it is for your encouragement and salvation, which works by endurance from the same sufferings that we also experience (and our hope for you is steadfast), or we are encouraged, it is for your encouragement and salvation,

7 Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so you are also of the comfort.

knowing that, as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also of the encouragement.

8 For we do not desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia: that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.

For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about our affliction that happened to us in Asia, because we were extraordinarily weighed down, above strength, so as for us to despair even to be alive.

9 Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

But we ourselves have had the sentence of death in ourselves, so that we should not be trusting in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead.

10 who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver, on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us,

Who rescued us out of so great a death, and does rescue, in whom we have hoped that he will also still rescue.

11 you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift given to us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on your behalf.

And of you who help together by supplication for us (a gift for us from many persons, because of many), so that there may be gratitude about you.

12 For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

For our pride is this (the testimony from our conscience), that we behave in the world in the simplicity and purity of God, not by fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, and especially toward you.

13 For we write no other things to you than what you read or even acknowledge, and I hope you will acknowledge to the end—

For we write no other thing to you, but rather what ye read or also acknowledge. And I hope ye will also acknowledge until the end,

14 as also you acknowledged us in part—that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

as also ye did acknowledge us in part, because we are your boast, just as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

15 In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit,

And in this confidence I intended to come to you earlier, so that ye might have a second benefit,

16 and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be sent forward by you on my journey to Judea.

and to pass through you into Macedonia, and to come again from Macedonia to you, and by you to be helped on the way toward Judea.

17 When I therefore planned this, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I plan, do I plan according to the flesh, that with me there should be the “Yes, yes” and the “No, no?”

Therefore intending this, did I accordingly employ anything in lightness? Or what I decide, do I decide according to flesh, so that it would be with me the yes, yes and the no, no?

18 But as God is faithful, our word toward you was not “Yes and no.”

But God is faithful, because our word toward you became not, yes and no.

19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us—by me, Silvanus, and Timothy—was not “Yes and no,” but in him is “Yes.”

For the Son of God, Jesus Christ who was proclaimed among you by us (by me and Silvanus and Timothy) became not, yes and no, but in him has become, yes.

20 For however many are the promises of God, in him is the “Yes.” Therefore also through him is the “Amen”, to the glory of God through us.

For as many as be promises of God, in him is the Yes, and in him the Truly, for glory to God through us.

21 Now he who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God,

Now he who establishes us with you in Christ, and who anointed us, is God.

22 who also sealed us and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.

He also is who put a seal on us, and who gave the pledge of the Spirit in our hearts.

23 But I call God for a witness to my soul, that to spare you, I did not come to Corinth.

But I call God for a witness upon my soul, that I did not yet come to Corinth, sparing you.

24 We do not control your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.

Not because we lord over your faith, but are co-workmen of your joy, for by faith ye stand.