1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timothy the brother, to the congregation of God that is at Corinth, with all the sanctified who are in the whole of Achaia.
2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and Lord Jesus Christ.
3 Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all encouragement,
4 who encourages us in all our affliction, in order for us to be able to encourage those in every affliction, through the encouragement of which we ourselves are encouraged by God.
5 Because, as the sufferings of the Christ abound to us, so also our encouragement abounds through the Christ.
6 But whether we are oppressed, it is for your encouragement and salvation, which works by endurance from the same sufferings that we also experience (and our hope for you is steadfast), or we are encouraged, it is for your encourage
7 knowing that, as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also of the encouragement.
8 For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about our affliction that happened to us in Asia, because we were extraordinarily weighed down, above strength, so as for us to despair even to be alive.
9 But we ourselves have had the sentence of death in ourselves, so that we should not be trusting in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead.
10 Who rescued us out of so great a death, and does rescue, in whom we have hoped that he will also still rescue.
11 And of you who help together by supplication for us (a gift for us from many persons, because of many), so that there may be gratitude about you.
12 For our pride is this (the testimony from our conscience), that we behave in the world in the simplicity and purity of God, not by fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, and especially toward you.
13 For we write no other thing to you, but rather what ye read or also acknowledge. And I hope ye will also acknowledge until the end,
14 as also ye did acknowledge us in part, because we are your boast, just as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.
15 And in this confidence I intended to come to you earlier, so that ye might have a second benefit,
16 and to pass through you into Macedonia, and to come again from Macedonia to you, and by you to be helped on the way toward Judea.
17 Therefore intending this, did I accordingly employ anything in lightness? Or what I decide, do I decide according to flesh, so that it would be with me the yes, yes and the no, no?
18 But God is faithful, because our word toward you became not, yes and no.
19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ who was proclaimed among you by us (by me and Silvanus and Timothy) became not, yes and no, but in him has become, yes.
20 For as many as be promises of God, in him is the Yes, and in him the Truly, for glory to God through us.
21 Now he who establishes us with you in Christ, and who anointed us, is God.
22 He also is who put a seal on us, and who gave the pledge of the Spirit in our hearts.
23 But I call God for a witness upon my soul, that I did not yet come to Corinth, sparing you.
24 Not because we lord over your faith, but are co-workmen of your joy, for by faith ye stand.
1 Paul an Apostle of Iesu Christ by the will of God and brother Timotheus. Vnto the congregacion of God which is at Corinthu with all the saynctes which are in all Achaia.
2 Grace be with you and peace from God oure father and from the Lorde Iesus Christ.
3 Blessed be God ye father of oure Lorde Iesus Christ the father of mercy and the God of all comforte
4 which comforteth vs in all oure tribulacio in so moche yt we are able to coforte them which are troubled in whatsoever tribulacion it be with the same comforte wher with we oure selves are coforted of God.
5 For as ye affliccios of Christ are pleteous in vs eve so is oure consolacio plenteous by Christ.
6 Whether we be troubled for youre consolacion and salvacio which salvacion sheweth her power in yt ye soffre ye same affliccios which we also suffre: or whether we be coforted for youre consolacion and salvacion:
7 yet oure hope is stedfast for you in as moch as we know how that as ye have youre parte in affliccios so shall ye be parttakers of consolacion.
8 Brethren I wolde not have you ignoraut of oure trouble which happened vnto vs in Asia. For we were greved out of measure passynge strength so greatly that we despeared even of lyfe.
9 Also we receaved an answer of deeth in oure selves and that because we shuld not put oure trust in oure selves: but in God which rayseth the deed to lyfe agayne
10 and which delivered vs from so gret a deeth and doth delivre. On whom we trust yt yet hereafter he will deliver
11 by the helpe of youre prayer for vs: that by the meanes of many occasions thankes maye be geven of many on oure behalfe for the grace geven vnto vs.
12 Oure reioysynge is this the testimony of oure coscience yt in synglenes and godly purenes and not in flesshly wysdome but by the grace of God we have had oure conuersacion in the worlde and most of all to you wardes.
13 We write no nother thinges vnto you then that ye reade and also knowe. Yee and I trust ye shall fynde vs vnto the ende even as ye have founde vs partly:
14 for we are youre reioysynge even as ye are oures in the daye of the Lorde Iesus.
15 And in this confidence was I mynded the other tyme to have come vnto you that ye myght have had yet one pleasure moare:
16 and to have passed by you into Macedonia and to have come agayne out of Macedonia vnto you and to have bene ledde forth to Iewrye warde of you.
17 When I thus wyse was mynded: dyd I vse lightnes? Or thinke I carnally those thinges which I thinke? that with me shuld be ye ye and naye naye.
18 God is faythfull: For oure preachynge vnto you was not ye and naye.
19 For Goddis sonne Iesus Christ which was preached amonge you by vs (that is to saye by me and Silvanus and Timotheus) was not ye and naye: but in him it was ye.
20 For all the promyses of God in him are ye: and are in him Amen vnto the lawde of God thorow vs.
21 For it is God which stablissheth vs and you in Christ and hath annoynted vs
22 which hath also sealed vs and hath geven the ernest of the sprete into oure hertes.
23 I call God for a recorde vnto my soule that forto faver you with all I came not enymoare vnto Corinthum.
24 Not that we be lordes over youre fayth: but helpers of youre ioye. For by fayth ye stode.