2 Corinthians 1

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

To the Church of God which is in Corinth, and to all the saints throughout Greece. from Paul, by God’s will an apostle of Christ, and from brother Timothy.

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

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

3 Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all consolation;

Thanks be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of tender mercies and the God of all comfort,

4 the one comforting us in all our tribulation, in order that we may be able to comfort those in all tribulation, through the consolation with which we ourselves are comforted of God,

who ever comforts me in all my troubles, so that I may be continually able to comfort those who are in any trouble by the comfort with which God is ever comforting me.

5 because as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation through Christ also abounds.

For just as I have more than my share in the sufferings of the Christ, so also through the Christ I have more than my share of comfort.

6 But if we are troubled it is in behalf of your consolation and salvation; if we are comforted, it is in behalf of your consolation, working in you through the endurance of the same sufferings which we also suffer.

If I am afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if I am receiving comfort, it is for your comfort - a comfort produced within you by your patient fortitude, under the same sufferings which I also am enduring.

7 And our hope is stedfast in your behalf; knowing that, as you are the partakers of the sufferings, so you are also of the consolation.

My hope for you is firm; for I know that as you are comrades in my sufferings, so also are you comrades in my comfort.

8 For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning our affliction taking place in Asia, because we were burthened exceedingly, above our power, so that we despaired even of living:

Now, brothers, I want you to know about the troubles which befell me in Asia; how I was burdened altogether beyond my strength, so that I renounced all hope even of life itself.

9 but we had the answer of death in ourselves, in order that we might not trust in ourselves, but in God who raised the dead:

Indeed, I had in myself, and still have, the sentence of death, in order that I might not rely on myself, but on God who raises the dead to life.

10 who delivered us from so great a death, and will deliver: in whom he have hope that he will also yet deliver;

He delivered me from such a death, and will deliver me. On him I have set my hopes that he will continue to deliver me,

11 you also cooperating in our behalf in prayer; in order that, the gift which is bestowed upon us from many persons, may through many be a source of thanks given in our behalf.

while all of you also are helping me by your prayers; so that from many lips thanksgiving may rise on my behalf for the blessings vouchsafed to me through the intercessions of many.

12 For our boasting is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and purity of God, not in carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God, we have sojourned in the world, and especially towards you.

For this is my proud boast, the testimony of my conscience, that it was in holiness and with pure motives before God, not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God, that I have conducted myself in the world, and above all in my relations with you.

13 For we do not write other things to you, but those things which you read and know, and I hope that you will know them perfectly:

For I am writing to you nothing different from what you read aloud and very well recognize, and I hope will continue to recognize to the very end,

14 as you have also known us in part, because we are your glorying, as you ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

as some indeed did recognize in part at last, that I am your cause of boasting, just as you will be mine on the Day of Jesus our Lord.

15 And in this confidence I wished to come unto you sooner, that you may have a second grace;

And in this confidence I intended to visit you, before going elsewhere, that you might have a pleasure twice over.

16 and through you to go unto Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and by you to be sent forward into Judea.

I intended to go by you into Macedonia, and to come again to you from Macedonia, and by you to be sent forward on my way to Judea.

17 Then wishing this, whether did I use lightness of purpose? or the things which I counsel, do I counsel according to the flesh, in order that it may be with me yes yes and no no?

In purposing this did I display "caprice"? Or what I purpose do I purpose in a worldly way, so that it may mean either "Yes, yes," or "No, no"?

18 But God is faithful, that our word which is to you is not yes and no.

As God is faithful, my message to you is not now "Yes," now "No."

19 For Christ Jesus, the Son of God, the one being preached by us, through me and Silvanus and Timothy, was not yes and no, but it was yes in him.

For Jesus Christ, Son of God, who was proclaimed among you by us, that is, by Silvanus and Timothy and me, was not wavering between "Yes" and "No," but in him is the everlasting "Yes."

20 For so many promises of God, in Him are yes; therefore indeed through him they are Amen unto the glory to God through us.

For however many are the promises of God, in him they are "Yes." Therefore also through him let the Amen be said by our voices to the glory of God.

21 But the one confirming us along with you unto Christ, and having anointed us, is God.

And he who has established me with you in the Anointed One, and has anointed me, is God.

22 Who also having sealed us, and given us the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

He has also set his seal upon me, and given me the pledge of his Spirit in my heart.

23 But I call God to witness to my soul, that sparing you I did not yet come into Corinth:

But for my part I call God to witness, as my soul shall answer for it, that it was to spare you that I came not to Corinth

24 not that we domineer over your faith, but we are fellow-workers of your joy: for by faith you stand.

(not that I am attempting to lord it over your faith, but rather to work with you for your happiness); for your faith is stedfast.