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 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, 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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