2 Corinthians 1

1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother, to the Assembly of God that is in Corinth, with all the holy ones who 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 to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

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

3 Blessed [is] God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and 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 who is comforting us in all our tribulation, for our being able to comfort those in any tribulation through the comfort with which we are comforted ourselves by 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 because, as the sufferings of the Christ abound to us, so through the Christ our comfort also abounds;

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

6 and whether we be in tribulation, [it is] for your comfort and salvation, that is worked in the enduring of the same sufferings that we also suffer; whether we are comforted, [it is] for your comfort and salvation;

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] steadfast for you, knowing that even as you are partakers of the sufferings—so also of the comfort.

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 we do not wish you to be ignorant, brothers, of our tribulation that happened to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly burdened above [our] power, so that we even despaired 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 but we ourselves have had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we may not be trusting on ourselves, but on God, who is raising 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 delivered us out of so great a death, and delivers, in whom we have hoped that even yet He will deliver;

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 you also working together for us by your supplication, that the gift through many persons to us, through many, may be thankfully acknowledged for us.

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 glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we conducted ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;

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 no other things do we write to you, but what you either read or also acknowledge, and I hope that you will also acknowledge to the 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 according as you also acknowledged us in part, that we are your glory, even as also you [are] ours, in the Day of the Lord Jesus;

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 I was intending to come to you before, that you might have a second favor,

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

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

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 This, therefore, intending, did I then use the lightness; or the things that I counsel, [did] I counsel according to the flesh, that it may be with me Yes, yes, and No, no?

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 And God [is] faithful, that our word to you did not become Yes and No,

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

19 for the Son of God, Jesus Christ, having been preached through us among you—through me and Silvanus and Timotheus—did not become Yes and No, but in Him it has become Yes;

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 as many as [are] promises of God, in Him [are] the Yes, and in Him the Amen, for glory to God through us;

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 He who is confirming you with us into Christ, and anointed us, [is] God,

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

22 who also sealed us, and gave the deposit 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 And I call on God for a witness on my soul, that sparing you, I did not come to Corinth yet;

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

24 not that we are lords over your faith, but we are workers together with your joy, for by faith you stand.

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.