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:

本函来自奉上帝旨意成为基督耶稣信徒的保罗，以及我们的教友提摩太兄弟。它将送给哥林多的上帝教会，以及和亚该亚地区的所有上帝子民。

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

愿你们获得来自天父和主耶稣基督的恩典与平安。

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

赞颂上帝、主耶稣基督的天父。他是充满怜悯的天父，是赐予所有抚慰的上帝。

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.

上帝在我们经历的所有苦难中抚慰我们，让我们可以用他所赐的抚慰，抚慰其他置身苦难之人。

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

我们越多承受基督所受的痛苦，就会获得更多基督的抚慰。

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.

如果我们身处不幸，那是为了能获得抚慰和拯救。如果我们获得抚慰，你也会获得抚慰，让你能够耐心地熬过我们所受的痛苦。

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

我们对你们充满信心，因为我们知道，你们承担了我们受的痛苦，但也必会获得我们的抚慰。

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.

兄弟姐妹们，我们要向你们讲述我们在亚西亚遭受的苦难。那苦难如此强烈，我们甚至担心没有足够的力量继续下去，甚至不知道能否活着结束这一切。

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,

事实上，那就像我们内在已被判处了死刑。但也正因为如此，我们不再仅倚靠自己的力量，而是去相信可以让人死而复生的上帝。

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,

他将我们从可怕的死亡中拯救出来，他还会再次这样做。我们完全相信上帝会继续拯救我们。

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.

请为我们祈祷，这也是对我们的支持。通过这种方式让众人为我们感谢上帝，上帝将会根据众人的祈祷，赐予我们恩典。

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.

我们始终以恰当的方式对待其他人，尤其是你们。我们的良心也证明了这一点，对此我们深感自豪。我们以圣洁和真诚遵循上帝的原则，不是依靠世俗的聪明，而是凭借上帝的恩典。

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—

我们不会以复杂的语言撰写任何文字，因为我们希望你们能够读懂和理解。我希望你们最终能够理解，

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.

即使你们现在并未全部理解，当主降临的时候，你们也会以我们为荣，就像我们也会以你们为荣。

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

我非常确信你们对我的信念，所以计划首先造访你们，让你们可以再次获得恩惠。

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.

随后我将去马其顿，再从马其顿返回你们那里，你们将送我去犹太。

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?”

我为什么要改变最初的计划？你们是否认为我总是轻易做决定？是否认为我如凡俗之人一般，在计划一切时总是似是而非？

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

上帝是值得信赖的，我们向你们所传之道绝不是似是而非，

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.”

因为我、西拉和提摩太向你们宣扬耶稣基督、上帝之子的真理，不可能似是而非。以基督为名，所有的一切都是绝对的“是。”

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.

对于上帝的所有承诺，基督的回答始终都为“是。”通过耶稣，我们也向上帝的荣耀说“是。”

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

上帝赐予你我所有人内在的力量，坚定地与基督同在。他已经指认了我们，

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

在我们身上盖下批准的印章，这也是圣灵可以说服我们的保证。

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

我呼求上帝给我作证，我之所以没有到哥林多，就是为了避免为你们带来苦痛。

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

我们不希望命令你们与上帝的信仰，而是希望帮助你们获得欢喜的体验，因为你们对上帝的信仰让你们更坚定。