2 Corinthians 1
1 Pavl an Apostle of JESVS Christ, by the will of God, and our brother Timotheus, to the Church of God, which is at Corinthus with all the Saints, which are in all Achaia:
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:
2 Grace be with you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Iesus Christ.
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3 Blessed be God, euen the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort,
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort,
4 Which comforteth vs in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any affliction by the comfort wherewith we our selues are comforted of God.
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.
5 For as the sufferings of Christ abounde in vs, so our consolation aboundeth through Christ.
For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.
6 And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and saluation, which is wrought in the induring of the same sufferings, which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and saluation.
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.
7 And our hope is stedfast concerning you, in as much as we know that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.
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.
8 For brethren, we woulde not haue you ignorant of our affliction, which came vnto vs in Asia, howe we were pressed out of measure passing strength, so that we altogether doubted, euen of life.
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.
9 Yea, we receiued the sentence of death in our selues, because we shoulde not trust in our selues, but in God, which rayseth the dead.
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.
10 Who deliuered vs from so great a death, and doeth deliuer vs: in whom we trust, that yet hereafter he will deliuer vs,
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,
11 So that ye labour together in prayer for vs, that for the gift bestowed vpon vs for many, thankes may be giuen by many persons for vs.
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.
12 For our reioycing is this, the testimonie of our conscience, that in simplicitie and godly purenesse, and not in fleshly wisedome, but by the grace of God wee haue had our conuersation in the worlde, and most of all to you wardes.
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.
13 For wee write none other thinges vnto you, then that ye reade or els that ye acknowledge, and I trust ye shall acknowledge vnto ye end.
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,
14 Euen as ye haue acknowledged vs partly, that we are your reioycing, euen as ye are ours, in the day of our Lord Iesus.
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.
15 And in this confidence was I minded first to come vnto you, that ye might haue had a double grace,
Confident of this, I planned to visit you first, so that you might receive a double blessing.
16 And to passe by you into Macedonia, and to come againe out of Macedonia vnto you, and to be led foorth towarde Iudea of you.
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.
17 When I therefore was thus minded, did I vse lightnesse? or minde I those thinges which I minde, according to the flesh, that with me should be, Yea, yea, and Nay, nay?
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”?
18 Yea, God is faithfull, that our worde towarde you was not Yea, and Nay.
But as surely as God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes” and “No.”
19 For the Sonne of God Iesus Christ, who was preached among you by vs, that is, by me, and Siluanus, and Timotheus, was not Yea, and Nay: but in him it was Yea.
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.”
20 For all the promises of God in him are Yea, and are in him Amen, vnto the glorie of God through vs.
For all the promises of God are “Yes” in Christ. And so through Him, our “Amen” is spoken to the glory of God.
21 And it is God which stablisheth vs with you in Christ, and hath anoynted vs.
Now it is God who establishes both us and you in Christ. He anointed us,
22 Who hath also sealed vs, and hath giuen the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
placed His seal on us, and put His Spirit in our hearts as a pledge of what is to come.
23 Nowe, I call God for a recorde vnto my soule, that to spare you, I came not as yet vnto Corinthus.
I call God as my witness that it was in order to spare you that I did not return to Corinth.
24 Not that wee haue dominion ouer your faith, but wee are helpers of your ioy: for by faith yee stande.
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.
