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2 Corinthians 1
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1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints that are in the whole of Achaia:
1From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and from our brother Timothy. To the church of God in Corinth and to all of God’s holy people throughout the region of Achaia.
2Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
2May grace and peace be yours from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3Blessedbethe God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;
3Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! He is the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort.
4who comforteth us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort them that are in any affliction, through the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
4He comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others in any kind of trouble, using the same comfort we received from God ourselves.
5For as the sufferings of Christ abound unto us, even so our comfort also aboundeth through Christ.
5Just as we share deeply in the sufferings of Christ, we also receive great comfort through Christ.
6But whether we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or whether we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which worketh in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer:
6If we suffer, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is so that you will be comforted and strengthened to endure the same things we suffer.
7and our hope for you is stedfast; knowing that, as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also are ye of the comfort.
7Our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, you also share in the comfort we receive.
8For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning our affliction which befell us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, insomuch that we despaired even of life:
8Brothers and sisters, we want you to know about the hard times we went through in the province of Asia. We were under such terrible pressure—way beyond our strength—that we gave up hope of even living through it.
9yea, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead:
9In fact, we felt like we had been sentenced to death. But this happened so that we would stop trusting in ourselves and learn to trust in God, who raises the dead.
10who delivered us out of so great a death, and will deliver: on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;
10He rescued us from such a terrible threat of death, and he will rescue us again. We have put our hope in him that he will continue to deliver us.
11ye also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift bestowed upon us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on our behalf.
11You are also helping us by praying for us. Then many people will give thanks to God for the kind gift of safety he gave us in answer to the prayers of so many.
12For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
12This is what we are proud of: our conscience tells us that we have acted with God’s holiness and honesty toward everyone, and especially toward you. We didn't depend on human wisdom but on God’s grace.
13For we write no other things unto you, than what ye read or even acknowledge, and I hope ye will acknowledge unto the end:
13We don’t write anything to you that you cannot read and understand. And I hope you will come to understand us completely,
14as also ye did acknowledge us in part, that we are your glorying, even as ye also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.
14just as you have already understood us to some extent. I hope you realize that you can be proud of us, just as we will be proud of you on the day when our Lord Jesus returns.
15And in this confidence I was minded to come first unto you, that ye might have a second benefit;
15Because I was sure of this, I planned to visit you first so that you could benefit from seeing me twice.
16and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come unto you, and of you to be set forward on my journey unto Judæa.
16I planned to stop and see you on my way to Macedonia and then visit you again on my return trip. Then you could help me on my way to Judea.
17When I therefore was thus minded, did I show fickleness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the yea yea and the nay nay?
17Do you think I was being wishy-washy when I made these plans? Do I make my decisions like a worldly person, saying "Yes, yes" and "No, no" at the same time?
18But as God is faithful, our word toward you is not yea and nay.
18As surely as God is faithful, our message to you is not both "Yes" and "No."
19For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timothy, was not yea and nay, but in him is yea.
19For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by me, Silvanus, and Timothy, was not "Yes" and "No." In him, it has always been "Yes."
20For how many soever be the promises of God, in him is the yea: wherefore also through him is the Amen, unto the glory of God through us.
20No matter how many promises God has made, they are all "Yes" in Christ. That is why we say "Amen" through him to give glory to God.
21Now he that establisheth us with you in Christ, and anointed us, is God;
21It is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He has anointed us,
22who also sealed us, and gave us the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
22put his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee of what is to come.