2 Corinthians 1

1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God in Corinth, together with all the saints throughout Achaia:

PAULOS, apostle of Jeshu Meshiha, by the will of Aloha; and Timotheos a brother: to the church of Aloha which is in Kurinthos, and to all the saints who are in all Akaia.

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

Grace be with you and peace, from Aloha our Father, and from our Lord Jeshu Meshiha.

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

Blessed be Aloha, the Father of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, the Father of mercies, and the God of all consolation, who consoleth us in all our afflictions,

4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.

that we may be able to console those who are in all afflictions by that consolation by which we are consoled of Aloha.

5 For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.

For as the sufferings of the Meshiha abound in us, so, through the Meshiha, our consolation aboundeth also.

6 If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which accomplishes in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we experience.

But if we are afflicted, it is for your consolation and for your salvation that we be afflicted: and if we are consoled, it is that you may be consoled, that there may be in you perseverance to endure those sufferings which we also suffer.

7 And our hope for you is sure, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you will share in our comfort.

And our hope concerning you is steadfast: for we know that if you participate in the sufferings, you also participate in the consolation.

8 We do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the hardships we encountered in the province of Asia. We were under a burden far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life.

FOR I would have you to know, my brethren, of the affliction that befell us in Asia: for we were greatly pressed beyond our strength, until our life was nigh to be dissolved,

9 Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead.

and because of these we had concluded (for) death; that we should not have hope in ourselves, but in Aloha, who raiseth the dead:

10 He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and He will deliver us. In Him we have placed our hope that He will yet again deliver us,

who from deaths of violence delivered us, and who will again, we trust, deliver us,

11 as you help us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the favor shown us in answer to their prayers.

through the help of your prayers for us; that his gift towards us may be a benefit effected for many, and many may praise him on our behalf.

12 And this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in relation to you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God—not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God.

For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and purity, and by the grace of Aloha, we are conversant in the world; and not with the wisdom of the flesh, and especially with you yourselves.

13 For we do not write you anything that is beyond your ability to read and understand. And I hope that you will understand us completely,

For we write no other (things) to you than those which you know and acknowledge, and which I am confident you will acknowledge unto the end:

14 as you have already understood us in part, so that you may boast of us just as we will boast of you in the day of our Lord Jesus.

even as you have in part acknowledged that we are your glorying, as you also are ours in the day of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha.

15 Confident of this, I planned to visit you first, so that you might receive a double blessing.

And in this confidence I have willed from the first to come to you, that doubly you may receive benefit,

16 I wanted to visit you on my way to Macedonia, and to return to you from Macedonia, and then to have you help me on my way to Judea.

and that I may pass by you to Makedunia, and again from Makedunia I may come to you, and you may lead me forth unto Jihud.

17 When I planned this, did I do it carelessly? Or do I make my plans by human standards, so as to say “Yes, yes” when I really mean “No, no”?

This then that I have purposed, have I purposed boastingly? or are they things of the flesh that I purpose, that I should have in them Yes, yes, or No, no?

18 But as surely as God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes” and “No.”

Faithful is Aloha that our word with you was not Yes and No.

19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was proclaimed among you by me and Silvanus and Timothy, was not “Yes” and “No,” but in Him it has always been “Yes.”

For the Son of Aloha, Jeshu Meshiha, who by us hath been preached unto you, by me and by Sylvanas and by Timotheos, was not Yes and No, but it was Yes in him.

20 For all the promises of God are “Yes” in Christ. And so through Him, our “Amen” is spoken to the glory of God.

For all the promises of Aloha in him, in the Meshiha, are Yes; for which by him we give Amen to the glory of Aloha.

21 Now it is God who establishes both us and you in Christ. He anointed us,

But Aloha himself confirmeth us with you in the Meshiha, who himself hath anointed us,

22 placed His seal on us, and put His Spirit in our hearts as a pledge of what is to come.

and hath sealed us, and given us the earnest-pledge of his Spirit in our hearts.

23 I call God as my witness that it was in order to spare you that I did not return to Corinth.

BUT I testify to Aloha on my soul that because I am sparing of you, I have not come to Kurinthos.

24 Not that we lord it over your faith, but we are fellow workers with you for your joy, because it is by faith that you stand firm.

Not because we are lords of your faith, but are helpers of your joy; for by faith you stand.