CHAPTER 1
Paul,
an apostle
of Christ
Jesus
by
the will
of God,
and
Timothy
our
brother,
To the
church
of God
in
Corinth,
together with
all
the
saints
throughout
Achaia:
Blessed be
the
God
and
Father
of our
Lord
Jesus
Christ,
the
Father
of compassion
and
the God
of all
comfort,
who
comforts
us
in
all
our
troubles,
so that
we
can
comfort
those
in
any
trouble
with
the
comfort
we ourselves
have received
from
God.
For
just as
the
sufferings
of Christ
overflow
to
us,
so
also
through
Christ
our
comfort
overflows.
If
we are afflicted,
it is for
your
comfort
and
salvation;
if
we are comforted,
it is for
your
comfort,
which
accomplishes
in you
patient endurance
of the
same
sufferings
we
experience.
And
our
hope
for
you
is sure,
because we know
that
just as
you share
in our
sufferings,
so
also you will share
in our
comfort.
We do not want
you
to be unaware,
brothers,
of
the
hardships
we
encountered
in
the province of Asia.
We were under a burden
far beyond
our ability to endure,
so that
we
despaired
even
of
life.
Indeed,
we
felt
we were under
the
sentence
of death,
in order that
we would not
trust
in
ourselves,
but
in
God,
who
raises
the
dead.
He
has delivered
us
from
such a deadly peril,
and
He will deliver us.
In
Him
we have placed our hope
that
He will yet again deliver us,
as you
help
us
by
your prayers.
Then
many
will give thanks
on
our behalf
for
the
favor shown
us
in answer to
their prayers .
And
this
is
our
boast:
Our
conscience
testifies
that
we have conducted ourselves
in
the
world,
and
especially
in relation to
you,
in
the holiness
and
sincerity
that
are from God—
not
in
worldly
wisdom,
but
in
the grace
of God.
For
we do not write you anything
that is beyond
your ability to read
and
understand.
And
I hope
that
you will understand
completely,
as
you have already understood
us
in
part,
so that
you
may boast
of us
just as
we
will boast of you
in
the
day
of our
Lord
Jesus.
I wanted
to visit
you
on my way to
Macedonia,
and
to return
to
you
from
Macedonia,
and then
to have
you
help me on my way
to
Judea.
When I planned
this,
did I do it
carelessly?
Or
do I make my plans
by
human standards,
so as to say
“Yes,
yes”
when I
really mean
“No,
no”?
For
the
Son
of God,
Jesus
Christ,
who
was proclaimed
among
you
by
me
and
Silvanus
and
Timothy,
was
not
“Yes”
and
“No,”
but
in
Him
it has always been
“Yes.”
For
all
the promises
of God
are
“Yes”
in
Christ.
And
so
through
Him,
our
“Amen”
is spoken
to
the glory
of God.
Not
that
we lord it over
your
faith,
but
we are
fellow workers
with you
for
your joy,
because it is
by
faith that
you stand firm.