1 Paulus, 'n apostel van Jesus Christus deur die wil van God, en TimotheÂs, die broeder, aan die gemeente van God wat in Korinthe is, saam met al die heiliges wat in die hele Ach je is:
2 Genade vir julle en vrede van God, onse Vader, en die Here Jesus Christus.
3 Geseënd is die God en Vader van onse Here Jesus Christus, die Vader van ontferminge en die God van alle vertroosting,
4 wat ons troos in al ons verdrukking, sodat ons die wat in allerhande verdrukking is, kan troos deur die vertroosting waarmee ons self deur God getroos word.
5 Want soos die lyde van Christus oorvloedig is in ons, so is ons troos ook oorvloedig deur Christus.
6 Maar of ons verdruk word, dit is julle tot troos en redding; en dit laat sy werking blyk deurdat julle dieselfde lyding verduur wat ons ook ondergaan; en of ons getroos word, dit is julle tot troos en redding.
7 En ons hoop vir julle is vas, omdat ons weet dat net soos julle deelgenote is aan die lyding, so ook aan die troos.
8 Want ons wil nie hê, broeders, dat julle onbekend moet wees met ons verdrukking wat oor ons in Asië gekom het nie, dat ons dit bo ons krag uitermate swaar gehad het, sodat ons selfs aan ons lewe gewanhoop het.
9 Ja, ons het al self by onsself die doodvonnis oor ons gehad, sodat ons nie op onsself sou vertrou nie, maar op God wat die dode opwek;
10 wat ons verlos het uit so 'n groot doodsgevaar en nog verlos; op wie ons hoop dat Hy ook nog sal verlos,
11 terwyl julle ook vir ons saamwerk deur die gebed, sodat daar vir die genadegawe aan ons deur baie persone op baie maniere vir ons gedank mag word.
12 Want ons roem is dit: die getuienis van ons gewete dat ons in eenvoudigheid en reinheid van God, nie in vleeslike wysheid nie, maar in die genade van God in die wêreld verkeer het, en veral by julle.
13 Want ons skryf aan julle niks anders as wat julle lees of ook verstaan nie, en ek hoop dat julle dit ook tot die einde toe sal verstaan,
14 soos julle ook gedeeltelik van ons verstaan het dat ons julle roem is, net soos julle ook ons roem is in die dag van die Here Jesus.
15 En in hierdie vertroue wou ek vroeër na julle kom, dat julle 'n tweede genade kan ontvang,
16 en by julle langs deurgaan na Macedonië, om weer van Macedonië af by julle te kom en deur julle voortgehelp te word na Jud,a.
17 Het ek dan miskien ligsinnig gehandel toe ek my dit voorgeneem het? Of wat ek my voorneem, neem ek my dit voor na die vlees sodat by my tegelyk is: ja ja, en nee nee?
18 So waar as God getrou is -- ons woord tot julle was nie ja en nee nie!
19 Want die Seun van God, Jesus Christus, wat deur ons onder julle verkondig is, deur my en Silv nus en TimotheÂs, was nie ja en nee nie, maar was ja in Hom.
20 Want hoeveel beloftes van God daar ook mag wees, in Hom is hulle ja en in Hom amen, tot heerlikheid van God deur ons.
21 Maar Hy wat ons saam met julle bevestig in Christus en ons gesalf het, is God,
22 wat ons ook verseël het en die Gees as onderpand in ons harte gegee het.
23 Maar ek roep God as getuie aan oor my siel dat ek om julle te spaar nog nie na Korinthe gekom het nie --
24 nie dat ons heers oor julle geloof nie, maar ons is medewerkers aan julle blydskap; want in die geloof staan julle vas.
1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints that are in the whole of Achaia: 2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort; 4 who comforteth us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort them that are in any affliction, through the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. 5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound unto us, even so our comfort also aboundeth through Christ. 6 But whether we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or whether we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which worketh in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: 7 and our hope for you is stedfast; knowing that, as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also are ye of the comfort. 8 For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning our affliction which befell us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, insomuch that we despaired even of life: 9 yea, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead: 10 who delivered us out of so great a death, and will deliver: on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us; 11 ye also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift bestowed upon us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on our behalf.
12 For our glorying 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 to you-ward. 13 For we write no other things unto you, than what ye read or even acknowledge, and I hope ye will acknowledge unto the end: 14 as also ye did acknowledge us in part, that we are your glorying, even as ye also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.
15 And in this confidence I was minded to come first unto you, that ye might have a second benefit; 16 and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come unto you, and of you to be set forward on my journey unto Judæa. 17 When I therefore was thus minded, did I show fickleness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the yea yea and the nay nay? 18 But as God is faithful, our word toward you is not yea and nay. 19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timothy, was not yea and nay, but in him is yea. 20 For how many soever be the promises of God, in him is the yea: wherefore also through him is the Amen, unto the glory of God through us. 21 Now he that establisheth us with you in Christ, and anointed us, is God; 22 who also sealed us, and gave us the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
23 But I call God for a witness upon my soul, that to spare you I forbare to come unto Corinth. 24 Not that we have lordship over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for in faith ye stand fast.