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| The Book of 2nd Corinthians 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| The Weymouth New Testament Online Bible (WEY) | ||||||||||||||||
| 2nd Corinthians 1:1 | Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God and our brother Timothy: To the Church of God in Corinth, with all God's people throughout Greece. | |||||||||||||||
| 2nd Corinthians 1:2 | May grace and peace be granted to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. | |||||||||||||||
| 2nd Corinthians 1:3 | Heartfelt thanks be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ the Father who is full of compassion and the God who gives all comfort. | |||||||||||||||
| 2nd Corinthians 1:4 | He comforts us in our every affliction so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction by means of the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. | |||||||||||||||
| 2nd Corinthians 1:5 | For just as we have more than our share of suffering for the Christ, so also through the Christ we have more than our share of comfort. | |||||||||||||||
| 2nd Corinthians 1:6 | But if, on the one hand, we are enduring affliction, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if, on the other hand, we are receiving comfort, it is for your comfort which is produced within you through your patient fortitude under the same sufferings as those which we also are enduring. | |||||||||||||||
| 2nd Corinthians 1:7 | And our hope for you is stedfast; for we know that as you are partners with us in the sufferings, so you are also partners in the comfort. | |||||||||||||||
| 2nd Corinthians 1:8 | For as for our troubles which came upon us in the province of Asia, we would have you know, brethren, that we were exceedingly weighed down, and felt overwhelmed, so that we renounced all hope even of life. | |||||||||||||||
| 2nd Corinthians 1:9 | Nay, we had, as we still have, the sentence of death within our own selves, in order that our confidence may repose, not on ourselves, but on God who raised the dead to life. | |||||||||||||||
| 2nd Corinthians 1:10 | He it is who rescued us from so imminent a death, and will do so again; and we have a firm hope in Him that He will also rescue us in all the future, | |||||||||||||||
| 2nd Corinthians 1:11 | while you on your part lend us your aid in entreaty for us, so that from many lips thanksgivings may rise on our behalf for the boon granted to us at the intercession of many. | |||||||||||||||
| 2nd Corinthians 1:12 | For the reason for our boasting is this the testimony of our own conscience that it was in holiness and with pure motives before God, and in reliance not on worldly wisdom but on the gracious help of God, that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and above all in our relations with you. | |||||||||||||||
| 2nd Corinthians 1:13 | For we are writing to you nothing different from what we have written before, or from what indeed you already recognize as truth and will, I trust, recognize as such to the very end; | |||||||||||||||
| 2nd Corinthians 1:14 | just as some few of you have recognized us as your reason for boasting, even as you will be ours, on the day of Jesus our Lord. | |||||||||||||||
| 2nd Corinthians 1:15 | It was because I entertained this confidence that I intended to visit you before going elsewhere so that you might receive a twofold proof of God's favour | |||||||||||||||
| 2nd Corinthians 1:16 | and to pass by way of Corinth into Macedonia. Then my plan was to return from Macedonia to you, and be helped forward by you to Judaea. | |||||||||||||||
| 2nd Corinthians 1:17 | Did I display any vacillation or caprice in this? Or the purposes which I form do I form them on worldly principles, now crying "Yes, yes," and now "No, no"? | |||||||||||||||
| 2nd Corinthians 1:18 | As certainly as God is faithful, our language to you is not now "Yes" and now "No." | |||||||||||||||
| 2nd Corinthians 1:19 | For Jesus Christ the Son of God He who was proclaimed among you by us, that is by Silas and Timothy and myself did not show Himself a waverer between "Yes" and "No." But it was and always is "Yes" with Him. | |||||||||||||||
| 2nd Corinthians 1:20 | For all the promises of God, whatever their number, have their confirmation in Him; and for this reason through Him also our "Amen" acknowledges their truth and promotes the glory of God through our faith. | |||||||||||||||
| 2nd Corinthians 1:21 | But He who is making us as well as you stedfast through union with the Anointed One, and has anointed us, is God, | |||||||||||||||
| 2nd Corinthians 1:22 | and He has also set His seal upon us, and has put His Spirit into our hearts as a pledge and foretaste of future blessing. | |||||||||||||||
| 2nd Corinthians 1:23 | But as for me, as my soul shall answer for it, I appeal to God as my witness, that it was to spare you pain that I gave up my visit to Corinth. | |||||||||||||||
| 2nd Corinthians 1:24 | Not that we want to lord it over you in respect of your faith we do, however, desire to help your joy for in the matter of your faith you are standing firm. | |||||||||||||||
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