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, apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and brother Timothy, to the church of God that is 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 Sovereign Jesus Christ.

3 Blessed [is] God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and God of all comfort,

All praise to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and God of all encouragement,

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 encourages us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to encourage those who are in whatever affliction, by means of the encouragement with which we ourselves are encouraged by God.

5 because, as the sufferings of the Christ abound to us, so through the Christ our comfort also abounds;

Because just as the sufferings of the Christ flow over into us, so also our encouraging overflows, through Christ.

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;

Now then, if we are afflicted, it is for the sake of your encouragement and deliverance, that are effective for enduring the same sufferings that we also are suffering

7 and our hope [is] steadfast for you, knowing that even as you are partakers of the sufferings—so also of the comfort.

(yes, our hope concerning you is steadfast); if we are encouraged, it also is for the sake of your encouragement and deliverance, since we know that you will share in the encouragement just as you do in the sufferings.

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;

And so, brothers, we do not want you to be in ignorance concerning the affliction that came upon us in Asia: we were under extreme pressure, beyond our strength, 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,

Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, so that we not place confidence in ourselves, but in the 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 did deliver us from that deadly peril, and still delivers; in whom we trust that He will keep on delivering,

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.

you also adding your cooperation in prayer, on our behalf; that thanks may be given by many persons for the gift bestowed on us by means of many, on your behalf.

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;

Now this is our boast: the testimony of our conscience that we have conducted ourselves in the world with openness and godly sincerity, not by fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and especially toward you.

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 any other things than what you can read and understand; and I do hope that you will keep on understanding to the end

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 indeed some of you have acknowledged) that we are your boast, just as you are ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus.

15 and in this confidence I was intending to come to you before, that you might have a second favor,

It was in this confidence that I was planning to come by you first,

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.

and by you to proceed into Macedonia, and to come back to you from Macedonia (that you might benefit twice), and then to be sent by you 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?

Now then, when I was deciding this, I was not acting frivolously, was I? Or the things I decide, do I decide according to the flesh, so that with me there would be both “Yes, yes” and “No, no”?

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

As God is faithful, our word to you was 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;

because the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was proclaimed among you by us—by me and Silvanus and Timothy—was not “Yes” and “No”. In fact, with 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;

because all the promises of God in Him are “Yes”; indeed, in Him they are “Amen”, that there be glory to God through us.

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

Now He who establishes us together with you into Christ, and who anointed us, is God,

22 who also sealed us, and gave the deposit of the Spirit in our hearts.

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

23 And I call on God for a witness on my soul, that sparing you, I did not come to Corinth yet;

For my part, I call on God as witness, upon my soul, that it was to spare you that I have not yet returned 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 have control over your faith, but we work with you for your joy, for it is by faith that you stand firm.)