| Christian Standard Bible | NET Bible |
| 1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by God's will, and Timothy our brother: To the church of God at Corinth, with all the saints who are throughout Achaia. | 1From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the church of God that is in Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia. |
| 2Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. | 2Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ! |
| 3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort. | 3Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, |
| 4He comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction, through the comfort we ourselves receive from God. | 4who comforts us in all our troubles so that we may be able to comfort those experiencing any trouble with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. |
| 5For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, so also through Christ our comfort overflows. | 5For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow toward us, so also our comfort through Christ overflows to you. |
| 6If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings that we suffer. | 6But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort that you experience in your patient endurance of the same sufferings that we also suffer. |
| 7And our hope for you is firm, because we know that as you share in the sufferings, so you will also share in the comfort. | 7And our hope for you is steadfast because we know that as you share in our sufferings, so also you will share in our comfort. |
| 8We don't want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, of our affliction that took place in Asia. We were completely overwhelmed--beyond our strength--so that we even despaired of life itself. | 8For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, regarding the affliction that happened to us in the province of Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of living. |
| 9Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death, so that we would not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead. | 9Indeed we felt as if the sentence of death had been passed against us, so that we would not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead. |
| 10He has delivered us from such a terrible death, and he will deliver us. We have put our hope in him that he will deliver us again | 10He delivered us from so great a risk of death, and he will deliver us. We have set our hope on him that he will deliver us yet again, |
| 11while you join in helping us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the gift that came to us through the prayers of many. | 11as you also join in helping us by prayer, so that many people may give thanks to God on our behalf for the gracious gift given to us through the help of many. |
| 12Indeed, this is our boast: The testimony of our conscience is that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, with godly sincerity and purity, not by human wisdom but by God's grace. | 12For our reason for confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that with pure motives and sincerity which are from God--not by human wisdom but by the grace of God--we conducted ourselves in the world, and all the more toward you. |
| 13For we are writing nothing to you other than what you can read and also understand. I hope you will understand completely-- | 13For we do not write you anything other than what you can read and also understand. But I hope that you will understand completely |
| 14just as you have partially understood us--that we are your reason for pride, just as you also are ours in the day of our Lord Jesus. | 14just as also you have partly understood us, that we are your source of pride just as you also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus. |
| 15Because of this confidence, I planned to come to you first, so that you could have a second benefit, | 15And with this confidence I intended to come to you first so that you would get a second opportunity to see us, |
| 16and to visit you on my way to Macedonia, and then come to you again from Macedonia and be helped by you on my journey to Judea. | 16and through your help to go on into Macedonia and then from Macedonia to come back to you and be helped on our way into Judea by you. |
| 17Now when I planned this, was I of two minds? Or what I plan, do I plan in a purely human way so that I say "Yes, yes" and "No, no" at the same time? | 17Therefore when I was planning to do this, I did not do so without thinking about what I was doing, did I? Or do I make my plans according to mere human standards so that I would be saying both "Yes, yes" and "No, no" at the same time? |
| 18As God is faithful, our message to you is not "Yes and no." | 18But as God is faithful, our message to you is not "Yes" and "No." |
| 19For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we proclaimed among you--Silvanus, Timothy, and I--did not become "Yes and no." On the contrary, in him it is always "Yes." | 19For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, the one who was proclaimed among you by us--by me and Silvanus and Timothy--was not "Yes" and "No," but it has always been "Yes" in him. |
| 20For every one of God's promises is "Yes" in him. Therefore, through him we also say "Amen" to the glory of God. | 20For every one of God's promises are "Yes" in him; therefore also through him the "Amen" is spoken, to the glory we give to God. |
| 21Now it is God who strengthens us together with you in Christ, and who has anointed us. | 21But it is God who establishes us together with you in Christ and who anointed us, |
| 22He has also put his seal on us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a down payment. | 22who also sealed us and gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a down payment. |
| 23I call on God as a witness, on my life, that it was to spare you that I did not come to Corinth. | 23Now I appeal to God as my witness, that to spare you I did not come again to Corinth. |
| 24I do not mean that we lord it over your faith, but we are workers with you for your joy, because you stand firm in your faith. | 24I do not mean that we rule over your faith, but we are workers with you for your joy, because by faith you stand firm. |
|
