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Chapter 1 |
| 1 | Paul, an
apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the
church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all
Achaia: |
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Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the
Lord Jesus Christ. |
| 3 | Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; |
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Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them
which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted
of God. |
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For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our
consolation also aboundeth by Christ. |
| 6 | And whether we be afflicted, it
is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of
the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for
your consolation and salvation. |
| 7 | And our hope of you is
stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be
also of the consolation. |
| 8 | For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant
of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure,
above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life: |
| 9 | But we had
the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but
in God which raiseth the dead: |
| 10 | Who delivered us from so
great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver
us; |
| 11 |
Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift
bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on
our behalf. |
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12 | For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our
conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom,
but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more
abundantly to you-ward. |
| 13 | For we write none other things unto you,
than what ye read or acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the
end; |
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As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your
rejoicing, even as ye also are our's in the day of the Lord Jesus. |
| 15 |
And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have
a second benefit; |
| 16 | And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to
come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward
Judaea. |
| 17
| When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or
the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me
there should be yea yea, and nay nay? |
| 18 | But as God is true, our word
toward you was not yea and nay. |
| 19 | For the Son of God, Jesus
Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and
Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea. |
| 20 | For all the
promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by
us. |
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Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath
anointed us, is God; |
| 22 | Who hath also sealed us, and given the
earnest of the Spirit in our hearts. |
| 23 | Moreover I call God for a
record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.
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| 24 | Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your
joy: for by faith ye stand. |
