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 saints who are in all Achaia:
PAUL a legate of Jesus the Messiah, by the good pleasure of God; and Timothy a brother; to the church of God that is at Corinth, and to all the saints that are in all Achaia.
2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!
Grace be with you, and peace, from God our Father, and from our Lord Jesus the Messiah.
3 Blessed [is] God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the mercies, and God of all comfort,
Blessed be God, the Father of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, the Father of mercies, and the God of all consolation;
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 comforteth us in all our afflictions, that we also might be able to comfort those who are in all afflictions, with the consolation wherewith we are comforted by God.
5 because, as the sufferings of the Christ do abound to us, so through the Christ doth abound also our comfort;
For, as the sufferings of the Messiah abound in us, so also our consolation aboundeth by the Messiah.
6 and whether we be in tribulation, [it is] for your comfort and salvation, that is wrought in the enduring of the same sufferings that we also suffer; whether we are comforted, [it is] for your comfort and salvation;
And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and for your life that we are afflicted; or whether we be comforted, it is, that ye may be comforted; and that there may be in you an eagerness, wherewith ye may endure those sufferings which we also suffer.
7 and our hope [is] stedfast for you, knowing that even as ye are partakers of the sufferings — so also of the comfort.
And our hope concerning you is steadfast: for we know, that if ye partake of the sufferings, ye will also partake of the consolation.
8 For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation that happened to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly burdened above [our] power, so that we despaired even of life;
But, my brethren, we wish you to know, respecting the affliction that was upon us in Asia, that we were afflicted exceedingly, beyond our strength, insomuch that our life was ready to terminate.
9 but we ourselves in ourselves the sentence of the death have had, that we may not be trusting on ourselves, but on God, who is raising the dead,
And we passed a sentence of death upon ourselves, that our confidence might not be in ourselves, but in God, who raiseth up the dead;
10 who out of so great a death did deliver us, and doth deliver, in whom we have hoped that even yet He will deliver;
who rescued us from imminent death: and we hope that he will again rescue us,
11 ye working together also for us by your supplication, that the gift through many persons to us, through many may be thankfully acknowledged for us.
by the aid of your prayers in our behalf; so that his gift to us may be a favor done for the sake of many, and many may praise him on our account.
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 did conduct ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;
For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and purity, and by the grace of God, and not in the wisdom of the flesh, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially towards you.
13 for no other things do we write to you, but what ye either do read or also acknowledge, and I hope that also unto the end ye shall acknowledge,
We write no other things unto you, than those which ye know and acknowledge. And I trust, ye will acknowledge them to the end:
14 according as also ye did acknowledge us in part, that your glory we are, even as also ye [are] ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus;
as ye have also partially acknowledged that we are your rejoicing, as ye also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus the Messiah.
15 and in this confidence I was purposing to come unto you before, that a second favour ye might have,
And in this confidence, I was before disposed to come to you, that ye might receive the grace doubly;
16 and through you to pass to Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come unto you, and by you to be sent forward to Judea.
and to pass by you into Macedonia, and again to come to you from Macedonia, and so ye would accompany me to Judaea.
17 This, therefore, counselling, did I then use the lightness; or the things that I counsel, according to the flesh do I counsel, that it may be with me Yes, yes, and No, no?
When therefore I thus purposed, did I purpose as one inconsiderate? Or, were the things I purposed, things of the flesh; so that there should be in them Yes, yes, and No, no?
18 and God [is] faithful, that our word unto you became not Yes and No,
God is the witness, that our word to you was not Yes and No.
19 for the Son of God, Jesus Christ, among you through us having been preached — through me and Silvanus and Timotheus — did not become Yes and No, but in him it hath become Yes;
For the Son of God, Jesus the Messiah, who was preached to you by us, namely, by me, by Sylvanus, and by Timotheus, was not Yes and No; but it was Yes in him.
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 in him, the Messiah, are Yes; for which cause, we through him give our Amen, to the glory of God.
21 and He who is confirming you with us into Christ, and did anoint us, [is] God,
Now it is God who establisheth us, with you, in the Messiah, and hath anointed us,
22 who also sealed us, and gave the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
and hath sealed us, and hath given the earnest of his Spirit in our hearts.
23 And I for a witness on God do call upon my soul, that sparing you, I came not yet to Corinth;
Moreover, I call God for a witness on my soul, that it was in order 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 the faith ye stand.
Not that we are lords over your faith, but we are helpers of your joy; for it is by faith ye stand.
