Sept. 21
2 Corinthians 1
2Co 1:1 Paul, an
apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our
brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the
saints who are in the whole of Achaia:
2Co 1:2 Grace to you
and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
2Co 1:3 Blessed be the
God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and
God of all comfort;
2Co 1:4 who comforts us
in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are
in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are
comforted by God.
2Co 1:5 For as the
sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds
through Christ.
2Co 1:6 But if we are
afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted,
it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of
the same sufferings which we also suffer.
2Co 1:7 Our hope for
you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the
sufferings, so also are you of the comfort.
2Co 1:8 For we don't
desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction
which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly,
beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.
2Co 1:9 Yes, we
ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we
should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,
2Co 1:10 who delivered
us out of so great a death, and does deliver; on whom we have set our
hope that he will also still deliver us;
2Co 1:11 you also
helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the
gift bestowed on us by means of many, thanks may be given by many
persons on your behalf.
2Co 1:12 For our
boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness
and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God
we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
2Co 1:13 For we write
no other things to you, than what you read or even acknowledge, and I
hope you will acknowledge to the end;
2Co 1:14 as also you
acknowledged us in part, that we are your boasting, even as you also
are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.
2Co 1:15 In this
confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might
have a second benefit;
2Co 1:16 and by you to
pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to
be sent forward by you on my journey to Judea.
2Co 1:17 When I
therefore was thus determined, did I show fickleness? Or the things
that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me
there should be the "Yes, yes" and the "No, no?"
2Co 1:18 But as God is
faithful, our word toward you was not "Yes and no."
2Co 1:19 For the Son of
God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, by me, Silvanus,
and Timothy, was not "Yes and no," but in him is "Yes."
2Co 1:20 For however
many are the promises of God, in him is the "Yes."
Therefore also through him is the "Amen," to the glory of
God through us.
2Co 1:21 Now he who
establishes us with you in Christ, and anointed us, is God;
2Co 1:22 who also
sealed us, and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.
2Co 1:23 But I call God
for a witness to my soul, that I didn't come to Corinth to spare you.
2Co 1:24 Not that we
have lordship over your faith, but are fellow workers with you for
your joy. For you stand firm in faith.