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 Jesus Christ by the purpose of God, and Timothy the brother, to the church of God which is in Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia:
2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort;
4 Who gives us comfort in all our troubles, so that we may be able to give comfort to others who are in trouble, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
5 For as we undergo more of the pain which Christ underwent, so through Christ does our comfort become greater.
6 But if we are troubled, it is for your comfort and salvation; or if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which takes effect through your quiet undergoing of the same troubles which we undergo:
7 And our hope for you is certain; in the knowledge that as you take part in the troubles, so you will take part in the comfort.
8 For it is our desire that you may not be without knowledge of our trouble which came on us in Asia, that the weight of it was very great, more than our power, so that it seemed that we had no hope even of life:
9 Yes, we ourselves have had the answer of death in ourselves, so that our hope might not be in ourselves, but in God who is able to give life to the dead:
10 Who gave us salvation from so great a death: on whom we have put our hope that he will still go on to give us salvation;
11 You at the same time helping together by your prayer for us; so that for what has been given to us through a number of persons, praise may go up to God for us from all of them.
12 For our glory is in this, in the knowledge which we have that our way of life in the world, and most of all in relation to you, has been holy and true in the eyes of God; not in the wisdom of the flesh, but in the grace of God.
13 For in our letters we say no other things to you, but those which you are reading, and to which you give agreement, and, it is my hope, will go on doing so to the end:
14 Even as you have been ready, in part, to say that we are your glory, in the same way that you are ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus.
15 And being certain of this, it was my purpose to come to you before, so that you might have a second grace;
16 And by way of Corinth to go into Macedonia, and from there to come back again to you, so that you might send me on my way to Judaea.
17 If then I had such a purpose, did I seem to be changing suddenly? or am I guided in my purposes by the flesh, saying, Yes, today, and, No, tomorrow?
18 As God is true, our word to you is not Yes and No.
19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we were preaching among you, even I and Silvanus and Timothy, was not Yes and No, but in him is Yes.
20 For he is the Yes to all the undertakings of God: and by him all the words of God are made certain and put into effect, to the glory of God through us.
21 Now he who makes our faith strong together with you, in Christ, and has given us of his grace, is God;
22 And it is he who has put his stamp on us, even the Spirit, as the sign in our hearts of the coming glory.
23 But God is my witness that it was in pity for you that I did not come to Corinth at that time.
24 Not that we have authority over your faith, but we are helpers of your joy: for it is faith which is your support.