1 P aul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia:

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:

2 G race to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Comfort in Suffering

Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!

3 B lessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,

Blessed God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the mercies, and God of all comfort,

4 w ho comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

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;

5 F or as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also abounds through Christ.

because, as the sufferings of the Christ do abound to us, so through the Christ doth abound also our comfort;

6 N ow if we are afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effective for enduring the same sufferings which we also suffer. Or if we are comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.

and whether we be in tribulation, for your comfort and salvation, that is wrought in the enduring of the same sufferings that we also suffer; whether we are comforted, for your comfort and salvation;

7 A nd our hope for you is steadfast, because we know that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so also you will partake of the consolation. Delivered from Suffering

and our hope stedfast for you, knowing that even as ye are partakers of the sufferings -- so also of the comfort.

8 F or we do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, of our trouble which came to us in Asia: that we were burdened beyond measure, above strength, so that we despaired even of life.

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 power, so that we despaired even of life;

9 Y es, we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead,

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,

10 w ho delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver us; in whom we trust that He will still deliver us,

who out of so great a death did deliver us, and doth deliver, in whom we have hoped that even yet He will deliver;

11 y ou also helping together in prayer for us, that thanks may be given by many persons on our behalf for the gift granted to us through many. Paul’s Sincerity

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.

12 F or our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and more abundantly toward you.

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;

13 F or we are not writing any other things to you than what you read or understand. Now I trust you will understand, even to the end

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,

14 ( as also you have understood us in part), that we are your boast as you also are ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus. Sparing the Church

according as also ye did acknowledge us in part, that your glory we are, even as also ye ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus;

15 A nd in this confidence I intended to come to you before, that you might have a second benefit—

and in this confidence I was purposing to come unto you before, that a second favour ye might have,

16 t o pass by way of you to Macedonia, to come again from Macedonia to you, and be helped by you on my way to Judea.

and through you to pass to Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come unto you, and by you to be sent forward to Judea.

17 T herefore, when I was planning this, did I do it lightly? Or the things I plan, do I plan according to the flesh, that with me there should be Yes, Yes, and No, No?

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?

18 B ut as God is faithful, our word to you was not Yes and No.

and God faithful, that our word unto you became not Yes and No,

19 F or the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us—by me, Silvanus, and Timothy—was not Yes and No, but in Him was Yes.

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;

20 F or all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us.

for as many as promises of God, in him the Yes, and in him the Amen, for glory to God through us;

21 N ow He who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us is God,

and He who is confirming you with us into Christ, and did anoint us, God,

22 w ho also has sealed us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.

who also sealed us, and gave the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

23 M oreover I call God as witness against my soul, that to spare you I came no more to Corinth.

And I for a witness on God do call upon my soul, that sparing you, I came not yet to Corinth;

24 N ot that we have dominion over your faith, but are fellow workers for your joy; for by faith you stand.

not that we are lords over your faith, but we are workers together with your joy, for by the faith ye stand.