1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the church of God that is in Corinth, together 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
4 who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those
5 For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, thus through Christ our comfort overflows also.
6 But if we are afflicted,
7 And our hope for you
8 For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning our affliction that happened in the
9 But
10 who delivered us from so great
12 For our reason for boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, in sincerity and purity of motive from God and not in merely human wisdom, but by the grace of God.
13 For we are not writing
14 just as you have also understood us in part, that we are your reason for boasting, just as you
15 And with this confidence, I was wanting to come to you previously, in order that you may have a second proof of my goodwill,
16 and through you to go to Macedonia, and to come to you again from Macedonia, and to be sent on my way by you to Judea.
17 Therefore,
18 But God
19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, the one who was proclaimed among you by us, by me and Silvanus and Timothy, did not become “yes” and “no,” but has become “yes” in him.
20 For as many as
21 Now the one who establishes us together with you in Christ and who anoints us
23 But I call upon God
24 Not that we lord it over your faith, but we are fellow workers for your joy, because by faith you stand firm.