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II CORINTHIANS ยท Chapter 1
1:1 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:
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 comfort;
1:4 Who comforts 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.
1:5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation
also abounds by Christ.
1:6 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.
1:7 And our hope of you is steadfast, knowing, that as all of you are
partakers of the sufferings, so shall all of you 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,
insomuch 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 which raises the dead:
1:10 Who delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver: in whom
we trust that he will yet deliver us;
1:11 All of you 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 conversation in the world, and more abundantly
toward you.
1:13 For we write no other things unto you, than what all of you read
or acknowledge; and I trust all of you shall acknowledge even to the end;
1:14 As also all of you have acknowledged us in part, that we are your
rejoicing, even as all of you also are our's in the day of the Lord Jesus.
1:15 And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that
all of you might have a second benefit;
1:16 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.
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 toward 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 Timotheus, 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, unto
the glory of God by us.
1:21 Now he which establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed
us, is God;
1:22 Who has also sealed us, and given the earn of the Spirit
in our hearts.
1:23 Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you
I came not as yet unto Corinth.
1:24 Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers
of your joy: for by faith all of you stand.
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