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2 Corinthians 1 :: New International Version (NIV)

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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 in Corinth, together with all his holy people throughout Achaia:

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

Praise to the God of All Comfort

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

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:4 - who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:5 - For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:6 - If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:7 - And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:8 - We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters,[fn] about the troubles we experienced in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired of life itself.

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

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

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:11 - as you help us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the gracious favor granted us in answer to the prayers of many.

Paul’s Change of Plans

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:12 - Now this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in our relations with you, with integrity[fn] and godly sincerity. We have done so, relying not on worldly wisdom but on God’s grace.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:13 - For we do not write you anything you cannot read or understand. And I hope that,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:14 - as you have understood us in part, you will come to understand fully that you can boast of us just as we will boast of you in the day of the Lord Jesus.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:15 - Because I was confident of this, I wanted to visit you first so that you might benefit twice.

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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 then to have you send me on my way to Judea.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:17 - Was I fickle when I intended to do this? Or do I make my plans in a worldly manner so that in the same breath I say both “Yes, yes” and “No, no”?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:18 - But as surely as God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes” and “No.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:19 - For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us—by me and Silas[fn] and Timothy—was not “Yes” and “No,” but in him it has always been “Yes.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:20 - For no matter how many promises God has made, they are “Yes” in Christ. And so through him the “Amen” is spoken by us to the glory of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:21 - Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:22 - set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:23 - I call God as my witness—and I stake my life on it—that it was in order to spare you that I did not return 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, because it is by faith you stand firm.
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NIV Footnotes
The Greek word for brothers and sisters (adelphoi) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God’s family; also in 8:1; 13:11.
Many manuscripts holiness
Greek Silvanus, a variant of Silas
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