2 Corinthians 1:1-16 ▼

1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy the brother, To the church 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 in all our tribulation, for us to be able to comfort those in every tribulation through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God,

5 because just as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, so through Christ our comfort also abounds.

6 But if we are hard pressed, it is for your? comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your? comfort, operating in the endurance of the same sufferings that we also suffer.

7 And our hope for you? is sure, knowing that as you? are fellow partakers of the sufferings, so also of the comfort.

8 For we do not want you? to be ignorant brothers, as to our tribulation having happened in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so as for us to despair even to live.

9 But we have had in ourselves the sentence of death, so that we should not be trusting in ourselves, but in God, the One raising the dead,

10 who delivered us from so great a death and will deliver us, in whom we have hoped that also He will deliver us still,

11 in your? also together helping us by supplication, so that thanks may be given for us by many faces for the gracious gift to us through many.

12 For our boasting is this: The testimony of our conscience, that in the simplicity and sincerity of God, and not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we conducted ourselves in the world and more abundantly toward you?.

13 For we write no other things to you? but what you? read or also understand. And I hope that you? will understand to the end,

14 as also you? understood us in part, so that we are your? boast, even as you? are also ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

15 And with this confidence I was purposing to come to you? before, so that you? might have a second grace,

16 and through you? to pass through into Macedonia, and to come to you? again from Macedonia, and to be sent forth by you? to Judea.