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:

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 the Lord Jesus Christ!

Grace to you and peace from God our Father in 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,

Thanks be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of tender mercies 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 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 the Christ abound to us, so through the Christ our comfort 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 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 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] steadfast for you, knowing that even as you are partakers of the sufferings—so also of the comfort.

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, 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;

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 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, 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 out of so great a death, and delivers, in whom we have hoped that even yet He will 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 working together for us by your supplication, that the gift through many persons to us, through many, may be thankfully acknowledged for us.

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 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;

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

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

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 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 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?

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

As God is faithful, my message to you is not now "Yes," now "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 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 as many as [are] promises of God, in Him [are] the Yes, and in Him the Amen, for 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 and He who is confirming you with us into Christ, and 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 sealed us, and gave the deposit 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 And I call on God for a witness on my soul, that sparing you, I did not come to Corinth yet;

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 are lords over your faith, but we are workers together with 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.