2 Corinthians 1:8-24 ▼

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.

17 Therefore, purposing this, then, did I use lightness? Or do I purpose what I purpose according to flesh, so that with me it may be “Yes, yes” and “No, no”?

18 But faithful is God, that our word to you? is not “Yes” and “No.”

19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, having been proclaimed among you? by us—by me and Silvanus and Timothy—was not “Yes” and “No,” but it has been “Yes” in Him.

20 For as many as are the promises of God, in Him is the “Yes.” Therefore also through Him the “Amen” through us is for glory to God.

21 Now the One establishing us with you? into Christ, and having anointed us, is God,

22 the One also having sealed us and having given the pledge of the Spirit in our hearts.

23 But I call God as witness upon my soul, that sparing you? I did not yet come to Corinth.

24 Not that we lord it over your? faith, but we are fellow workers with you? of joy; for in the faith you? stand firm.