2. Korinther 1
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Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, and Timothy the
brother, to the assembly of God being in Corinth, with all the saints being in
all Achaia, 2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ. 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of
compassions and God of all comfort, 4 the One comforting us on all our
affliction, for us to be able to comfort those in every affliction, through the
comfort by which we ourselves are comforted by God. 5 Because even as the
sufferings of Christ abound in us, so also our comfort abounds through Christ.
6 But if we are troubled, it is for your comfort and salvation, being worked
out in the endurance of the same sufferings which we also suffer. If we are
comforted, it is for your comfort and salvation; 7 and our hope for you is
certain, knowing that even as you are sharers of the sufferings, so also of the
comfort. 8 For, brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant as to our
affliction having happened to us in Asia, that we were excessively burdened
beyond our power, so as for us even to despair of living. 9 But we ourselves
have the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust on ourselves,
but on God, the One raising the dead, 10 who delivered us from so great a
death, and does deliver; in whom we have hope that He will still deliver us, 11
you also laboring together for us in prayer, that the gracious gift by many
persons be the cause of thanksgiving through many for us. 12 For our glorying
is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we had our conduct in the world
in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of
God, and more abundantly toward you. 13 For we do not write other things to you
than what you read or even recognize; and I hope that you will recognize even
to the end, 14 even as you also in part recognized us, that we are your
glorying, even as also you are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus. 15 And in
this confidence, I purposed to come to you before now, that you might have a
second benefit, 16 and to go through you into Macedonia, and again from
Macedonia to come to you and to be set forward by you to Judea. 17 Then
purposing this, did I indeed use lightness? Or what I purposed, did I purpose
according to flesh, that it may be with me yes, yes, and no, no? 18 But God is
faithful, that our word to you did not become yes and no. 19 For Jesus Christ
the Son of God, the One proclaimed among you by us, through me and Silvanus and
Timothy, did not become Yes and No, but has been Yes in Him. 20 For as many
promises as are of God, in Him they are yes, and in Him are Amen, for glory to
God through us. 21 But He confirming us and anointing us with you in Christ is
God, 22 even He having sealed us, and having given the earnest of the Spirit in
our hearts. 23 And I call God as witness to my soul that to spare you I came no
more to Corinth. 24 Not that we rule over your faith, but we are fellow-workers
of your joy. For by faith you stand.