Sha'ul�s Second Letter to the Corinthians, Chapter 1
{1:1} Sha'ul, an apostle 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 shalom 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 works in
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, brothers, 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 Yehudah. {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, Sila, 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 "Amein,"
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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