1 Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ by God's will, and the brother Timotheus, to the assembly of God which is in Corinth, with all the saints who 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 compassions, and God of all encouragement;

4 who encourages us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to encourage those who are in any tribulation whatever, through the encouragement with which we ourselves are encouraged of God.

5 Because, even as the sufferings of the Christ abound towards us, so through the Christ does our encouragement also abound.

6 But whether we are in tribulation, {it is} for your encouragement and salvation, wrought in the endurance of the same sufferings which *we* also suffer,

7 (and our hope for you {is} sure;) or whether we are encouraged, {it is} for your encouragement and salvation: knowing that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also of the encouragement.

8 For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, as to our tribulation which happened {to us} in Asia, that we were excessively pressed beyond {our} power, so as to despair even of living.

9 But we ourselves had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not have our trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead;

10 who has delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver; in whom we confide that he will also yet deliver;

11 ye also labouring together by supplication for us that the gift towards us, through means of many persons, may be the subject of the thanksgiving of many for us.

12 For our boasting is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity before God, (not in fleshly wisdom but in God's grace,) we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly towards you.

13 For we do not write other things to you but what ye well know and recognise; and I hope that ye will recognise to the end,

14 even as also ye have recognised us in part, that we are your boast, even as *ye* {are} ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

15 And with this confidence I purposed to come to you previously, that ye might have a second favour;

16 and to pass through to Macedonia by you, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be set forward by you to Judaea.

17 Having therefore this purpose, did I then use lightness? Or what I purpose, do I purpose according to flesh, that there should be with me yea yea, and nay nay?

18 Now God {is} faithful, that our word to you is not yea and nay.

19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, he who has been preached by us among you (by me and Silvanus and Timotheus), did not become yea and nay, but yea *is* in him.

20 For whatever promises of God {there are}, in him is the yea, and in him the amen, for glory to God by us.

21 Now he that establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us, {is} God,

22 who also has sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

23 But I call God to witness upon my soul that to spare you I have not yet come to Corinth.

24 Not that we rule over your faith, but are fellow-workmen of your joy: for by faith ye stand.

1 奉 神旨意作基督耶稣使徒的保罗， 和提摩太弟兄， 写信给在哥林多 神的教会， 和全亚该亚所有的圣徒。

2 愿恩惠平安从我们的父 神和主耶稣基督临到你们。

3 我们主耶稣基督的父 神是应当称颂的。他是满有怜悯的父， 赐各样安慰的 神。

4 我们在一切患难中， 神都安慰我们， 使我们能用他所赐的安慰， 去安慰那些在各样患难中的人。

5 我们既然多受基督所受的痛苦， 就靠着基督多得安慰。

6 如果我们遭遇患难， 那是要使你们得着安慰， 得着拯救； 如果我们得到安慰， 也是要使你们得到安慰。这安慰使你们能够忍受我们所受那样的痛苦。

7 我们对你们的盼望是坚定的， 因为知道你们既然一同受痛苦， 也必照样同得安慰。

8 弟兄们， 我们在亚西亚遭受的患难， 我们很想让你们知道。那时我们受到了过于我们所能忍受的压力， 甚至活下去的希望都没有了，

9 而且断定自己是必死的了； 然而， 这正是要我们不倚靠自己， 只倚靠那叫死人复活的 神。

10 他救我们脱离了那极大的死亡， 而且他还要救我们， 我们希望他将来仍要救我们。

11 请你们一同用祷告支持我们， 好使许多人为着我们所蒙的恩献上感谢。这恩是借着许多人的代求而得到的。

12 我们引以为荣的， 就是我们处世为人， 是本着 神的圣洁和真诚， 不是靠着人的聪明， 而是靠着 神的恩典， 对你们更是这样， 这是我们的良心可以作证的。

13 我们现在写给你们的， 不外是你们可以宣读、可以明白的。

14 正如你们对我们已经有些认识， 我盼望你们可以彻底明白： 在我们的主耶稣的日子， 我们是你们的光荣， 你们也是我们的光荣。

15 我既然有这样的信念， 就打算先到你们那里， 使你们再一次得到恩惠，

16 然后经过你们那里， 往马其顿去， 再从马其顿回到你们中间， 让你们给我送行往犹太去。

17 我这样决定， 难道是反复不定吗？我所决定的， 难道是体贴肉体而定， 使我忽是忽非吗？

18 神是信实的， 我们向你们所传的道并不是"是"而又"非"的，

19 因为我、西拉和提摩太， 在你们中间所宣扬的耶稣基督， 神的儿子， 并不是"是"而又"非"的， 在他总是"是"的。

20 因为 神的一切应许， 在基督里都是"是"的， 为此我们借着他说"阿们"， 使荣耀归于 神。

21 那在基督里坚定我们和你们， 又膏抹我们的， 就是 神。

22 他在我们身上盖了印， 就是赐圣灵在我们心里作凭据。

23 我呼求 神给我作证， 我没有再到哥林多来， 是要宽容你们。

24 我们并不是要辖制你们的信仰， 而是要作你们的同工， 使你们喜乐， 因为你们在信仰上已经站稳了。