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 a legate of Jesus the Messiah, by the good pleasure of God; and Timothy a brother; to the church of God that is at Corinth, and to all the saints that are in all Achaia.

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

Grace be with you, and peace, from God our Father, and from our Lord Jesus the Messiah.

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

Blessed be God, the Father of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, the Father of mercies, and the God of all consolation;

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 comforteth us in all our afflictions, that we also might be able to comfort those who are in all afflictions, with the consolation wherewith we are comforted by God.

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

For, as the sufferings of the Messiah abound in us, so also our consolation aboundeth by the Messiah.

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.

And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and for your life that we are afflicted; or whether we be comforted, it is, that ye may be comforted; and that there may be in you an eagerness, wherewith ye may endure those sufferings which we also suffer.

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

And our hope concerning you is steadfast: for we know, that if ye partake of the sufferings, ye will also partake of the consolation.

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.

But, my brethren, we wish you to know, respecting the affliction that was upon us in Asia, that we were afflicted exceedingly, beyond our strength, insomuch that our life was ready to terminate.

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,

And we passed a sentence of death upon ourselves, that our confidence might not be in ourselves, but in God, who raiseth up 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 from imminent death: and we hope that he will again rescue us,

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.

by the aid of your prayers in our behalf; so that his gift to us may be a favor done for the sake of many, and many may praise him on our account.

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 rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and purity, and by the grace of God, and not in the wisdom of the flesh, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially towards 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—

We write no other things unto you, than those which ye know and acknowledge. And I trust, ye will acknowledge them to 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 ye have also partially acknowledged that we are your rejoicing, as ye also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus the Messiah.

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

And in this confidence, I was before disposed to come to you, that ye might receive the grace doubly;

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 by you into Macedonia, and again to come to you from Macedonia, and so ye would accompany me to Judaea.

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?”

When therefore I thus purposed, did I purpose as one inconsiderate? Or, were the things I purposed, things of the flesh; so that there should be in them Yes, yes, and No, no?

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

God is the witness, that our word to you was 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 the Messiah, who was preached to you by us, namely, by me, by Sylvanus, and by Timotheus, was not Yes and No; but it was Yes in him.

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 all the promises of God in him, the Messiah, are Yes; for which cause, we through him give our Amen, to the glory of God.

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

Now it is God who establisheth us, with you, in the Messiah, and hath anointed us,

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

and hath sealed us, and hath given the earnest of his 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.

Moreover, I call God for a witness on my soul, that it was in order to spare you, that I came not to Corinth.

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

Not that we are lords over your faith, but we are helpers of your joy; for it is by faith ye stand.