1 P aul, an apostle (a special messenger) of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy brother, to the church (assembly) of God which is at Corinth, and to all the saints (the people of God) throughout Achaia (most of Greece):

Павел, волею Божиею Апостол Иисуса Христа, и Тимофей брат, церкви Божией, находящейся в Коринфе, со всеми святыми по всей Ахаии:

2 G race (favor and spiritual blessing) to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).

благодать вам и мир от Бога Отца нашего и Господа Иисуса Христа.

3 B lessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of sympathy (pity and mercy) and the God of every comfort (consolation and encouragement),

Благословен Бог и Отец Господа нашего Иисуса Христа, Отец милосердия и Бог всякого утешения,

4 W ho comforts (consoles and encourages) us in every trouble (calamity and affliction), so that we may also be able to comfort (console and encourage) those who are in any kind of trouble or distress, with the comfort (consolation and encouragement) with which we ourselves are comforted (consoled and encouraged) by God.

утешающий нас во всякой скорби нашей, чтобы и мы могли утешать находящихся во всякой скорби тем утешением, которым Бог утешает нас самих!

5 F or just as Christ’s '> own] sufferings fall to our lot abundantly, so through Christ comfort (consolation and encouragement) is also abundantly by us.

Ибо по мере, как умножаются в нас страдания Христовы, умножается Христом и утешение наше.

6 B ut if we are troubled (afflicted and distressed), it is for your comfort (consolation and encouragement) and salvation; and if we are comforted (consoled and encouraged), it is for your comfort (consolation and encouragement), which works when you patiently endure the same evils (misfortunes and calamities) that we also suffer and undergo.

Скорбим ли мы, для вашего утешения и спасения, которое совершается перенесением тех же страданий, какие и мы терпим.

7 A nd our hope for you is ever unwavering (assured and unshaken); for we know that just as you share and are partners in sufferings and calamities, you also share and are partners in comfort (consolation and encouragement).

И надежда наша о вас тверда. Утешаемся ли, для вашего утешения и спасения, зная, что вы участвуете как в страданиях наших, так и в утешении.

8 F or we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about the affliction and oppressing distress which befell us in Asia, how we were so utterly and unbearably weighed down and crushed that we despaired even of life.

Ибо мы не хотим оставить вас, братия, в неведении о скорби нашей, бывшей с нами в Асии, потому что мы отягчены были чрезмерно и сверх силы, так что не надеялись остаться в живых.

9 I ndeed, we felt within ourselves that we had received the sentence of death, but that was to keep us from trusting in and depending on ourselves instead of on God Who raises the dead.

Но сами в себе имели приговор к смерти, для того, чтобы надеяться не на самих себя, но на Бога, воскрешающего мертвых,

10 W ho rescued and saved us from such a perilous death, and He will still rescue and save us; in and on Him we have set our hope (our joyful and confident expectation) that He will again deliver us '> draw us to Himself],

Который и избавил нас от столь смерти, и избавляет, и на Которого надеемся, что и еще избавит,

11 W hile you also cooperate by your prayers for us. Thus many persons give thanks on our behalf for the grace (the blessing of deliverance) granted us at the request of the many who have prayed.

при содействии и вашей молитвы за нас, дабы за дарованное нам, по ходатайству многих, многие возблагодарили за нас.

12 I t is a reason for pride and exultation to which our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world and especially toward you, with devout and pure motives and godly sincerity, not in fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God (the unmerited favor and merciful kindness by which God, exerting His holy influence upon souls, turns them to Christ, and keeps, strengthens, and increases them in Christian virtues).

Ибо похвала наша сия есть свидетельство совести нашей, что мы в простоте и богоугодной искренности, не по плотской мудрости, но по благодати Божией, жили в мире, особенно же у вас.

13 F or we write you nothing else but simply what you can read and understand, and I hope that you will become thoroughly acquainted '> divine things] and know and understand accurately and well to the end,

И мы пишем вам не иное, как то, что вы читаете или разумеете, и что, как надеюсь, до конца уразумеете,

14 a s you have partially known and understood and acknowledged us and recognized that you can be proud of us, even as we of you on the day of our Lord Jesus.

так как вы отчасти и уразумели уже, что мы будем вашею похвалою, равно и вы нашею, в день Господа нашего Иисуса Христа.

15 I t was with assurance of this that I wanted and planned to visit you first, so that you might have a double favor and token of grace (goodwill).

И в этой уверенности я намеревался придти к вам ранее, чтобы вы вторично получили благодать,

16 t o visit you on my way to Macedonia, and to come again to you from Macedonia and have you send me forward on my way to Judea.

и через вас пройти в Македонию, из Македонии же опять придти к вам; а вы проводили бы меня в Иудею.

17 N ow because I changed my original plan, was I being unstable and capricious? Or what I plan, do I plan according to the flesh, ready to say Yes, yes, No, no?

Имея такое намерение, легкомысленно ли я поступил? Или, что я предпринимаю, по плоти предпринимаю, так что у меня то 'да, да', то 'нет, нет'?

18 A s surely as God is trustworthy and faithful and means what He says, our speech and message to you have not been Yes No.

Верен Бог, что слово наше к вам не было то 'да', то 'нет'.

19 F or the Son of God, Christ Jesus (the Messiah), Who has been preached among you by us, by myself, Silvanus, and Timothy, was not Yes and No; but in Him it is Yes.

Ибо Сын Божий, Иисус Христос, проповеданный у вас нами, мною и Силуаном и Тимофеем, не был 'да' и 'нет'; но в Нем было 'да', --

20 F or as many as are the promises of God, they all find their Yes in Him. For this reason we also utter the Amen (so be it) to God through Him to the glory of God.

ибо все обетования Божии в Нем 'да' и в Нем 'аминь', --в славу Божию, через нас.

21 B ut it is God Who confirms and makes us steadfast and establishes us with you in Christ, and has consecrated and anointed us '> enduing us with the gifts of the Holy Spirit];

Утверждающий же нас с вами во Христе и помазавший нас Бог,

22 p utting His seal upon us and giving us His Spirit in our hearts as the security deposit and guarantee.

Который и запечатлел нас и дал залог Духа в сердца наши.

23 B ut I call upon God as my soul’s witness: it was to avoid hurting you that I refrained from coming to Corinth—

Бога призываю во свидетели на душу мою, что, щадя вас, я доселе не приходил в Коринф,

24 N ot that we have dominion and lord it over your faith, but fellow laborers your joy, for in faith ( in your strong and welcome conviction or belief that Jesus is the Messiah, through Whom we obtain eternal salvation in the kingdom of God) you stand firm.

не потому, будто мы берем власть над верою вашею; но мы споспешествуем радости вашей: ибо верою вы тверды.