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1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,[#1 Cor 1.1; Col 1.1; 1 Tim 1.1]
To the church of God that is in Corinth, together with all the saints throughout Achaia:
2Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.[#Rom 1.7; 1 Cor 1.3; Gal 1.3]
3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all consolation,[#Rom 15.5; Eph 1.3; 1 Pet 1.3]
4who consoles us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to console those who are in any affliction with the consolation with which we ourselves are consoled by God.
5For just as the sufferings of Christ are abundant for us, so also our consolation is abundant through Christ.[#2 Cor 4.10; Col 1.24]
6If we are being afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation; if we are being consoled, it is for your consolation, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we are also suffering.
7Our hope for you is unshaken, for we know that as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our consolation.
8We do not want you to be ignorant, brothers and sisters, of the affliction we experienced in Asia, for we were so utterly, unbearably crushed that we despaired of life itself.[#Acts 19.23; 1 Cor 15.32]
9Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death so that we would rely not on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead.
10He who rescued us from so deadly a peril will continue to rescue us; on him we have set our hope that he will rescue us again,[#2 Pet 2.9; #1.10 Other ancient authorities read is rescuing us or lack the phrase]
11as you also join in helping us by your prayers, so that many may give thanks on our behalf for the blessing granted us through the prayers of many.[#Rom 15.30; 2 Cor 4.15; Phil 1.19; #1.11 Other ancient authorities read your]
12Indeed, this is our boast, the testimony of our conscience: we have behaved in the world with holiness and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God—and all the more toward you.[#1 Cor 2.4, 13; 2 Cor 2.17; #1.12 Other ancient authorities read simplicity]
13For we write you nothing other than what you can read and also understand; I hope you will understand until the end—
14as you have already understood us in part—that on the day of the Lord Jesus we are your boast even as you are our boast.[#1 Cor 1.8]
15Since I was sure of this, I wanted to come to you first, so that you might have a double favor;[#Rom 1.11; 15.29; 1 Cor 4.19; #1.15 Other ancient authorities read joy]
16I wanted to visit you on my way to Macedonia and to come back to you from Macedonia and have you send me on to Judea.[#1 Cor 16.6–7]
17Was I vacillating when I wanted to do this? Do I make my plans according to ordinary human standards, ready to say “Yes, yes” and “No, no” at the same time?[#1.17 Gk according to the flesh]
18As surely as God is faithful, our word to you is not “Yes and No.”[#1.18 Other ancient authorities read was not]
19For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we proclaimed among you, Silvanus and Timothy and I, was not “Yes and No,” but in him it has always been “Yes.”[#Mt 16.16; 1 Thess 1.1; Heb 13.8]
20For in him every one of God’s promises is a “Yes.” For this reason it is through him that we say the “Amen,” to the glory of God.[#Rom 15.8, 9; 1 Cor 14.16]
21But it is God who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us,[#1 Cor 1.8; 1 Jn 2.20, 27]
22who has put his seal on us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a down payment.[#Eph 1.13; #1.22 Other ancient authorities read by putting…and giving]
23But I call on God as witness against me: it was to spare you that I did not come again to Corinth.[#1 Cor 4.21; 2 Cor 2.3; Gal 1.20]
24I do not mean to imply that we lord it over your faith; rather, we are workers with you for your joy because you stand firm in faith.[#Rom 11.20; 1 Cor 15.1; 1 Pet 5.3]