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 of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints that are in the whole of Achaia:

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

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

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 mercies and God of all comfort;

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 comforteth us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort them that are in any affliction, through the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

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

For as the sufferings of Christ abound unto us, even so our comfort also aboundeth through Christ.

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 whether we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or whether we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which worketh in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer:

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 stedfast; knowing that, as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also are ye of the comfort.

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 would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning our affliction which befell us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, insomuch 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,

yea, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth 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 delivered us out of so great a death, and will deliver: on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;

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.

ye also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift bestowed upon us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on our behalf.

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;

For our glorifying 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 to you-ward.

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 no other things unto you, than what ye read or even acknowledge, and I hope ye will acknowledge unto 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 also ye did acknowledge us in part, that we are your glorying, even as ye also are ours, in 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,

And in this confidence I was minded to come first unto you, that ye might have a second benefit;

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.

and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come unto you, and of you to be set forward on my journey unto Judaea.

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?

When I therefore was thus minded, did I show fickleness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the yea yea and the nay nay?

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

But as God is faithful, our word toward you is not yea and nay.

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, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timothy, was not yea and nay, but in him is yea.

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 how many soever be the promises of God, in him is the yea: wherefore also through him is the Amen, unto the glory of God through us.

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

Now he that establisheth us with you in Christ, and anointed us, is God;

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

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

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 God for a witness upon my soul, that to spare you I forbare to come unto 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 lordship over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for in faith ye stand fast.