2 Corinthians 1

Revised Geneva Translation

1 Paul - an Apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God - and brother Timothy, To the Church of God which is at Corinth (with all the Saints who are in all Achaia):

² Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort,

⁴ Who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, by the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

⁵ For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation abounds through Christ.

⁶ And if we are afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is wrought in the enduring of the same sufferings that we also suffer. Or, if we are comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.

⁷ And our hope is steadfast concerning you, because we know that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so shall you also be of the consolation.

⁸ For brothers, we would not have you be ignorant of our affliction, which came to us in Asia; how we were pressed beyond measure, passing strength, so that we utterly despaired, even of life.

⁹ But, we received the sentence of death in ourselves, because we should not rest in ourselves, but in God, Who raised the dead.

¹⁰ Who delivered us from so great a death and does deliver us. And in Whom also we have hope will still yet deliver.

¹¹ So that you labor together in prayer for us, that thanks on our behalf may be given by many for the grace bestowed upon us through many.

¹² For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience: that in simplicity and godly purity, not in fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and most of all towards you.

¹³ For we write no other things to you than what you read and understand. And I hope you shall understand even to the end,

¹⁴ as you have understood us partly, that we are your exultation, even as you are ours, on the day of our Lord Jesus.

¹⁵ And in this confidence, I initially intended to come to you. So that you might have had a second grace;

¹⁶ and to pass by you into Macedonia; and to come again to you, out of Macedonia; and to be led forth by you toward Judea.

¹⁷ Therefore, when I was thus-minded did I use lightness? Or do I purpose those things which I purpose according to the flesh, that with me should be, “Yes, yes”, and “No, no”?

¹⁸ But God is faithful. So that our word toward you was not “Yes”, and “No”.

¹⁹ For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, Who was preached among you by us - by me, and Silvanus, and Timothy - was not “Yes” and “No”. But in Him was “Yes”.

²⁰ For all the promises of God in Him are “Yes”, and in Him “Amen”, to the glory of God through us.

²¹ And it is God Who established us with you in Christ and has anointed us.

²² Who has also sealed us and has given the earnest portion of the Spirit in our hearts.

²³ Now, I call God as witness to my soul, that to spare you, I have not as yet come to Corinth.

²⁴ Not that we have dominion over your faith, but we are helpers of your joy. For by faith you stand.