Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ a by God’s will, and Timothy the brother, to the assembly that is in Corinth, with all the saints that are in the whole of Achaia;
grace to you and peace from God our Father and Lord Jesus Christ.
Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
that comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those that are in any tribulation through the comfort with which we are comforted ourselves by God,
because as the sufferings of the b Christ abound toward us, even so through the Christ aboundeth also our comfort.
But, whether we be in tribulation, [it is] for your comfort and salvation, that worketh in endurance of the same sufferings which we also suffer (and our hope [is] steadfast for you); c whether we be comforted, [it is] for your comfort and salvation,
knowing that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also of the comfort.
For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, as to our tribulation that came to pass d in Asia, that we were excessively pressed beyond power, so as for us to despair even of our living.
But we ourselves have had in ourselves the sentence of death, that we should not have our trust in ourselves, but in God that raiseth the dead,
who delivered us from so great a death, and doth e deliver, in whom we have hope that he will also yet deliver,
ye also labouring together by supplication for us that from many persons the gift toward us may by many be matter of thanksgiving for us.
For our boasting is this, the testimony of our conscience that in holiness f and sincerity before God, not in carnal wisdom but in God’s grace, we conducted ourselves in the world, and more abundantly towards you.
For no other thing we write unto you than what ye read, or even recognize, and I hope that ye will recognize unto the end,
even as also ye recognized us in part that we are your boast, just as ye also are ours in the day of our Lord Jesus.
And with this confidence I was intending previously to come unto you, that ye might have a second favour,
and through you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come unto you, and by you to be sent forward into Judea.
Having, then, this intention, did I, pray, use lightness? Or what I purpose, do I purpose according to flesh, that with me may be the yea yea and the nay nay?
Now God [is] faithful that our word that [was] unto you is not yea and nay.
For the Son of God, Christ Jesus, that was preached among you by us, by me and Silvanus and Timothy, became not yea and nay, but is become yea in him.
For as many as [be] God’s promises, in him [is] the yea; wherefore also by him [is] the amen for glory to God by us.
Now he that establisheth us with you in Christ, and anointed us is God,
who also sealed us, and gave the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
But I call God as witness upon my soul, that to spare you I came not yet unto Corinth;
not that we rule over your faith, but are fellow-workers of your joy, for by faith ye stand.