2 Corinthians 1:1-9 ▼

1 Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the divine appointment, and Timothy our brother, to the church of God, which is at Corinth, with all the christians throughout Achaia: favour,

2 and peace be to you from God our father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

3 Blessed be the God, and father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the father of mercies, and the God of all consolation:

4 who comforteth me in all my tribulations, that I may be able to comfort them who are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith I myself am comforted of God.

5 for as I have greatly suffered for Christ, so I have been greatly comforted thro' Christ.

6 but whether I am afflicted, it is for your consolation and relief, which is effected by your perseverance, patiently enduring the same sufferings which I also undergo: or whether I am comforted, it is for your consolation and relief.

7 and the hopes I had of you continue still the same, knowing that as you have had your share of suffering, so you will likewise have of consolation.

8 For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant of that insupportable weight of affliction that over-whelm'd me so in Asia that I despaired even of life:

9 nay, I abandon'd my self to death, that I might not rely upon my self for deliverance, but on God who raiseth the dead.