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Chapter 1 |
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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: |
| 2 | 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; |
| 4 | 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. |
| 5 | For as the sufferings of Christ abound
in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ. |
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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. |
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And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the
sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation. |
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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. |
| 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; |
| 14 | 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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21 | Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ,
and hath anointed us, is God; |
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| 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. |
| 24 | Not for that
we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye
stand. |
