1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and
Timothy [our] brother, to the church of God which is at
Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia:
1:2 Grace [be] to you and peace from God our Father, and [from]
the Lord Jesus Christ.
1:3 Blessed [be] God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
the Father of mercies, and the God of all consolation.
1:4 Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be
able to comfort them who are in any trouble by the consolation
with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
1:5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our
consolation also aboundeth by Christ.
1:6 And whether we are 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 are comforted,
[it is] for your consolation and salvation.
1:7 And our hope of you [is] steadfast, knowing, that as ye are
partakers of the sufferings, so [shall ye be] also of the
consolation.
1:8 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, so that we despaired even of life:
1:9 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we
should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead:
1:10 Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver:
in whom we trust that he will yet deliver [us]:
1:11 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.
1:12 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 manner of life
in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
1:13 For we write no other things to you, than what ye read or
acknowledge; and I trust ye will acknowledge even to the end;
1:14 As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your
rejoicing, even as ye also [are] ours in the day of the Lord
Jesus.
1:15 And in this confidence I purposed to come to you before,
that ye might have a second benefit;
1:16 And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again from
Macedonia to you, and by you to be brought on my way towards
Judea.
1:17 When I therefore was thus minded, did I use levity? or the
things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh,
that with me there should be yea, yea, and nay, nay?
1:18 But [as] God [is] true, our word towards you was not yea
and nay.
1:19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among
you by us, [even] by me, and Silvanus, and Timothy, was not yea
and nay, but in him was yea.
1:20 For all the promises of God in him [are] yea, and in him
Amen, to the glory of God by us.
1:21 Now he who establisheth us with you in Christ, and hath
anointed us, [is] God;
1:22 Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the
spirit in our hearts.
1:23 Moreover, I call God for a witness upon my soul, that to
spare you I have not as yet come to Corinth.
1:24 Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are
helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.
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