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2 Corinthians 1 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:1 - Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God that is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:2 - Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

God of All Comfort

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:3 - Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:4 - who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:5 - For as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:6 - If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:7 - Our hope for you is unshaken, for we know that as you share in our sufferings, you will also share in our comfort.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:8 - For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers,[fn] of the affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:9 - Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:10 - He delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:11 - You also must help us by prayer, so that many will give thanks on our behalf for the blessing granted us through the prayers of many.

Paul’s Change of Plans

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:12 - For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity[fn] and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:13 - For we are not writing to you anything other than what you read and understand and I hope you will fully understand—

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:14 - just as you did partially understand us—that on the day of our Lord Jesus you will boast of us as we will boast of you.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:15 - Because I was sure of this, I wanted to come to you first, so that you might have a second experience of grace.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:16 - I wanted to visit you on my way to Macedonia, and to come back to you from Macedonia and have you send me on my way to Judea.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:17 - Was I vacillating when I wanted to do this? Do I make my plans according to the flesh, ready to say “Yes, yes” and “No, no” at the same time?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:18 - As surely as God is faithful, our word to you has not been Yes and No.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:19 - For 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 is always Yes.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:20 - For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is through him that we utter our Amen to God for his glory.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:21 - And it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:22 - and who has also put his seal on us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:23 - But I call God to witness against me—it was to spare you that I refrained from coming again to Corinth.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:24 - Not that we lord it over your faith, but we work with you for your joy, for you stand firm in your faith.
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ESV Footnotes
Or For as the sufferings of Christ abound for us, so also our comfort abounds through Christ
Or brothers and sisters. In New Testament usage, depending on the context, the plural Greek word adelphoi (translated “brothers”) may refer either to brothers or to brothers and sisters
Some manuscripts holiness
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