Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians, Chapter 1
{1:1} Paul, an emissary of Messiah Yeshua through the will of God,
and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth,
with all the holy ones who are in the whole of Achaia: {1:2} Grace to
you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Yeshua the Messiah.
{1:3} Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah,
the Father of mercies and God of all comfort; {1:4} who comforts us in
all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in
any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are
comforted by God. {1:5} For as the sufferings of Messiah abound to us,
even so our comfort also abounds through Messiah. {1:6} But if we are
afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted,
it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of
the same sufferings which we also suffer. {1:7} Our hope for you is
steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so
also are you of the comfort. {1:8} For we don't desire to have you
uninformed, [1>]brothers,[<1] concerning our affliction which happened
to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our
power, so much that we despaired even of life. {1:9} Yes, we ourselves
have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not
trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead, {1:10} who
delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver; on whom we
have set our hope that he will also still deliver us; {1:11} you also
helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the
gift bestowed on us by means of many, thanks may be given by many
persons on your behalf. {1:12} For our boasting is this: the testimony
of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in
fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the
world, and more abundantly toward you. {1:13} For we write no other
things to you, than what you read or even acknowledge, and I hope you
will acknowledge to the end; {1:14} as also you acknowledged us in
part, that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day
of our Lord Yeshua. {1:15} In this confidence, I was determined to
come first to you, that you might have a second benefit; {1:16} and by
you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you,
and to be sent forward by you on my journey to Judea. {1:17} When I
therefore was thus determined, did I show fickleness? Or the things
that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me
there should be the "Yes, yes" and the "No, no?" {1:18} But as God is
faithful, our word toward you was not "Yes and no." {1:19} For the Son
of God, Yeshua the Messiah, who was preached among you by us, by me,
Silvanus, and Timothy, was not "Yes and no," but in him is "Yes."
{1:20} For however many are the promises of God, in him is the "Yes."
Therefore also through him is the "Amen," to the glory of God through
us.
{1:21} Now he who establishes us with you in Messiah, and anointed
us, is God; {1:22} who also sealed us, and gave us the down payment of
the Spirit in our hearts. {1:23} But I call God for a witness to my
soul, that I didn't come to Corinth to spare you. {1:24} Not that we
have lordship over your faith, but are fellow workers with you for
your joy. For you stand firm in faith.
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Footnotes:
[1] {1:8} The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may
also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."
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