2 Corinthians 1:1-9 ▼

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,