2 Corinthians 1
1 Paul apostle of Christ Jesus through [the] will of God and Timothy the brother To the church of God which is being in Corinth with the saints all who are being in all Achaia;
To the Church of God in Corinth, and to all Christ’s People throughout Greece, from Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus, by the will of God, and from Timothy, a Brother.
2 Grace to you and peace from God [the] Father of us and [the] Lord Jesus Christ.
May God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ bless you and give you peace.
3 Blessed [be] the God and Father of the Lord of us Jesus Christ, the Father of compassions and God of all comfort,
Blessed is the God and Father of Jesus Christ our Lord, the all-merciful Father, the God ever ready to console,
4 who is comforting us in all the tribulation of us for to be able us to comfort those in every tribulation through the comfort with which we are comforted ourselves by God;
who consoles us in all our troubles, so that we may be able to console those who are in any trouble with the consolation that we ourselves receive from him.
5 because even as abound the sufferings of the Christ toward us, thus so through Christ abounds also the comfort of us.
It is true that we have our full share of the sufferings of the Christ, but through the Christ we have also our full share of consolation.
6 If however we are constricted, [it is] for your comfort and salvation if we are encouraged, [it is] for your comfort (and salvation *KO*) which is operating in [the] endurance of the same sufferings that also we ourselves suffer,
If we meet with trouble, it is for the sake of your consolation and salvation; and, if we find consolation, it is for the sake of the consolation that you will experience when you are called to endure the very sufferings that we ourselves are enduring;
7 And the hope of us [is] steadfast for of you; knowing that (as *N(k)O*) partners you are of the sufferings, so also of the comfort.
and our hope for you remains unshaken. We know that, as you are sharing our sufferings, you will also share our consolation.
8 Not for do we want you to be ignorant brothers, (as to *NK(o)*) the affliction of us having happened (to us *k*) in Asia that against excessively beyond [our] power we were weighed so as to despair for us even to live;
We want you, Brothers, to know that, in the troubles which befell us in Roman Asia, we were burdened altogether beyond our strength, so much so that we even despaired of life.
9 But we in ourselves the sentence of death has, in order that not having trusted we may be in ourselves but in God who is raising the dead;
Indeed, we had the presentiment that we must die, so that we might rely, not on ourselves, but on God who raises the dead.
10 who from such a great a death has delivered us and (will deliver [us] *N(k)O*) in whom we have hope that also still He will deliver [us]
And from so imminent a death God delivered us, and will deliver us again; for in him we have placed our hopes of future deliverance, while you, also, help us by your prayers.
11 joining together also of you for us by supplication, so that by many persons for the toward us grace bestowed through many thanks may be given for (us. *NK(O)*)
And then many lips will give thanks on our behalf for the blessing granted us in answer to many prayers.
12 For boasting of us this is, the testimony of the conscience of us, that in (openness *NK(O)*) and sincerity (*no*) of God, (and *no*) not in wisdom fleshly but in [the] grace of God we have conducted ourselves in the world, more abundantly now toward you.
Indeed, our main ground for satisfaction is this — Our conscience tells us that our conduct in the world, and still more in our relations with you, was marked by a purity of motive and a sincerity that were inspired by God, and was based, not on worldly policy, but on the help of God.
13 No for other things we write to you, other than what you read or even understand; I hope now that (and *k*) to [the] end you will understand,
We never write anything to you other than what you will acknowledge to the very end —
14 even as also you have understood us in part that boasting of you we are, even as also you [are] ours in the day of the Lord (of us *NO*) Jesus.
And, indeed, you have already partly acknowledged it about us — that you have a right to be proud of us, as we shall be proud of you, on the Day of our Lord Jesus.
15 And with this confidence I was planning (*o*) previously to you to come so that secondly (grace *NK(O)*) (you may have *N(k)O*)
With this conviction in my mind, I planned to come to see you first, so that your pleasure might be doubled —
16 and through you to pass through into Macedonia and again from Macedonia to come to you and by you to be set forward to Judea.
To visit you both on my way to Macedonia, and to come to you again on my return from Macedonia, and then to get you to send me on my way into Judea.
17 Thus therefore (deciding *N(k)O*) surely not ever then levity did I use? Or what I purpose according to flesh do I purpose, so that there may be with me myself Yes yes and No no?
As this was my plan, where, pray, did I show any fickleness of purpose? Or do you think that my plans are formed on mere impulse, so that in the same breath I say ‘Yes’ and ‘No’?
18 Faithful however God [is], that the word of us to you not (was *N(k)O*) Yes and No;
As God is true, the Message that we brought you does not waver between ‘Yes’ and ‘No’!
19 The of God for Son Jesus Christ the [One] among you through us having been proclaimed through me and Silvanus and Timothy, not was Yes and No, but Yes in Him it has always been;
The Son of God, Christ Jesus, whom we — Silas, Timothy, and I — proclaimed among you, never wavered between ‘Yes’ and ‘No.’ With him it has always been ‘Yes.’
20 As many as for promises of God [there are], in Him [is] the Yes; (Therefore *NO*) also (thorugh Him *N(k)O*) the Amen to God [is] for glory through us.
For, many as were the promises of God, in Christ is the ‘Yes’ that fulfils them. Therefore, through Christ again, let the ‘Amen’ rise, through us, to the glory of God.
21 The [One] now establishing us with you unto Christ and having anointed us [is] God,
God who brings us, with you, into close union with Christ, and who consecrated us,
22 the [One] also having sealed us and having given the pledge of the Spirit in the hearts of us.
also set his seal upon us, and gave us his Spirit in our hearts as a pledge of future blessings.
23 I myself however as witness God call upon my soul that sparing you no longer no longer have I come to Corinth;
But, as my life shall answer for it, I call God to witness that it was to spare you that I deferred my visit to Corinth.
24 Not for we lord it over your faith, but fellow workers are of the joy with you; in the for faith you have stood firm.
I do not mean that we are to dictate to you with regard to your faith; on the contrary, we work with you for your true happiness; indeed, it is through your faith that you are standing firm.
