¹Paul , 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:[#1:1 “Christ” means “Anointed One”.]

²Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ .

³Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ , the Father of mercies and God of all comfort ,

⁴who 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 .

⁵For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us , even so our comfort also abounds through Christ .

⁶But 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 .

⁷Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that , since you are partakers of the sufferings , so you are also of the comfort .

⁸For 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 .[#1:8 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”]

⁹Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves , that we should not trust in ourselves , but in God who raises the dead ,

¹⁰who 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 ,

¹¹you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication ; that , for the gift given to us by means of many , thanks may be given by many persons on your behalf .

¹²For 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 towards you .

¹³For we write no other things to you than what you read or even acknowledge , and I hope you will acknowledge to the end —

¹⁴as also you acknowledged us in part —that we are your boasting , even as you also are ours , in the day of our Lord Jesus .

¹⁵In this confidence , I was determined to come first to you , that you might have a second benefit ,

¹⁶and 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 .

¹⁷When I therefore planned this , did I show fickleness? Or the things that I plan, do I plan according to the flesh , that with me there should be the “Yes , yes ” and the “No , no ?”

¹⁸But as God is faithful , our word towards you was not “Yes and no .”

¹⁹For the Son of God , Jesus Christ , who was preached amongst you by us —by me , Silvanus , and Timothy —was not “Yes and no ,” but in him is “Yes .”

²⁰For 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 .

²¹Now he who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God ,

²²who also sealed us and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts .

²³But I call God for a witness to my soul , that to spare you , I didn’t come to Corinth .

²⁴We don’t control your faith , but are fellow workers with you for your joy . For you stand firm in faith .