1 P aul, 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:

Paul, 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):

2 G race to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!

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

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

Blessed 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),

4 w ho 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;

Who 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.

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

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

6 a nd 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;

But 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.

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

And 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).

8 F or 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;

For 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.

9 b ut 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,

Indeed, 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.

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

Who 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],

11 y e working together also for us by your supplication, that the gift through many persons to us, through many may be thankfully acknowledged for us.

While 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.

12 F or 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;

It 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).

13 f or 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,

For 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,

14 a ccording 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;

as 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.

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

It 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).

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

to 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.

17 T his, 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?

Now 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?

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

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

19 f or 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;

For 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.

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

For 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.

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

But 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];

22 w ho also sealed us, and gave the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

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

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

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

24 n ot that we are lords over your faith, but we are workers together with your joy, for by the faith ye stand.

Not 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.