1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by [the] will of God, and Timothy the brother, To the church of God being in Corinth, with all the saints being in all Achaia: VP
2 Grace to you⁺ and peace from God our Father and [the] Lord Jesus Christ. VP
3 Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassions and God of all comfort, VP
4 the [One] comforting us in all our tribulation, for us to be able to comfort those in every tribulation through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God, VP
5 because just as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, so through Christ our comfort also abounds. VP
6 But if we are hard pressed, [it is] for your⁺ comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, [it is] for your⁺ comfort, operating in [the] endurance of the same sufferings that we also suffer. VP
7 And our hope for you⁺ [is] sure, knowing that as you⁺ are fellow partakers of the sufferings, so also of the comfort. VP
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. VP
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, VP
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, VP
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. VP
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⁺. VP
13 For no other [things] do we write to you⁺ but what you⁺ read or also understand. And I hope that you⁺ will understand to [the] end, VP
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. VP
15 And with this confidence I was purposing to come to you⁺ before, so that you⁺ might have a second grace, VP
16 and through you⁺ to pass through into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you⁺, and to be sent forth by you⁺ to Judea. VP
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”? VP
18 But faithful [is] God, that our word to you⁺ is not “Yes” and “No.” VP
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. VP
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. VP
21 Now the [One] establishing us with you⁺ into Christ, and having anointed us, [is] God, VP
22 the [One] also having sealed us and having given the pledge of the Spirit in our hearts. VP
23 But I call God as witness upon my soul, that sparing you⁺ I did not yet come to Corinth. VP
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. VP