2 Coríntios 1

1 Paul, an apostle of Christ*1:1 "Christ" means "Anointed One". Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at 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 mercies and God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ. 6 But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer. 7 Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so you are also of the comfort.

8 For we don’t desire to have you uninformed, brothers,*1:8 The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings." concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia: that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life. 9 Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead, 10 who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver, on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us, 11 you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift given to us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on your*1:11 + MT: your; TR and NU: our behalf.

12 For our boasting 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 toward you. 13 For we write no other things to you than what you read or even acknowledge, and I hope you will acknowledge to the end— 14 as also you acknowledged us in part—that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

15 In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit, 16 and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be sent forward by you on my journey to Judea. 17 When I therefore planned this, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I plan, do I plan according to the flesh, that with me there should be the "Yes, yes" and the "No, no?" 18 But as God is faithful, our word toward you was not "Yes and no." 19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us—by me, Silvanus, and Timothy—was not "Yes and no," but in him is "Yes." 20 For however many are the promises of God, in him is the "Yes." Therefore also through him is the "Amen", to the glory of God through us.

21 Now he who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God, 22 who also sealed us and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.

23 But I call God for a witness to my soul, that to spare you, I didn’t come to Corinth. 24 We don’t control your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.

He Mihi

1 Nā Pāora, i paingia e te Atua hei āpōtoro mā Īhu Karaiti, nā te teina hoki, nā Tīmoti,

Ki te hāhi a te Atua i Koriniti, rātou ko te hunga tapu katoa i Akāia puta noa:

2 Kia tau ki a koutou te aroha noa me te rangimārie, he mea nā te Atua, nā tō tātou Matua, nā te Ariki hoki, nā Īhu Karaiti.

Ka Whakawhetai a Pāora ki te Atua

3 Kia whakapaingia te Atua, te Matua o tō tātou Ariki, o Īhu Karaiti, te Matua o ngā mahi tohu, te Atua o te whakamārie katoa; 4 ko ia hoki te kaiwhakamārie i a mātou i ō mātou pāweratanga katoa, e taea ai e mātou te whakamārie te hunga e pēhia ana e te aha, e te aha, mā te whakamārie e whakamārie nei te Atua i a mātou. 5 I te mea kei te hira tonu ngā mamae o te Karaiti i roto i a mātou, kei te pērā anō te hira o tō mātou whakamārietanga i roto i a te Karaiti. 6 Nā, ahakoa tūkinotia mātou, he mea tēnā kia whakamārietia ai, kia whakaorangia ai koutou; ahakoa rānei whakamārietia mātou, he mea tēnā kia whakamārietia ai koutou, koia tēnā e mahi nā, i a koutou ka whakaririka kau nā ki aua mamae e mamae nei hoki mātou. 7 E ū ana hoki tō mātou whakaaro ki a koutou, i te mōhio iho, ka uru nā koutou ki ngā mamae, ka uru anō hoki koutou ki te whakamārietanga.

8 Kāhore hoki mātou e pai kia ngaro i a koutou, e ōku tēina, te pāweratanga i tūpono ki a mātou i Āhia, te tino taimaha o te pēhanga i a mātou, nuku noa atu i tō mātou kaha, nā poroporoaki ana mātou ki te ora. 9 Āe, i roto anō i a mātou te kupu mō te mate, kia kaua ō mātou whakaaro e ū ki a mātou anō, engari ki te Atua, ki te kaiwhakaara i te hunga mate. 10 Nāna mātou i whakaora i taua mate nui, ā, e whakaora anō ia. E ū ana ō mātou whakaaro ki a ia, tērā ia e whakaora tonu i a mātou; 11 me koutou hoki ka āwhina tahi nā, ki tā koutou īnoi mō mātou; kia whakawhetai te tokomaha mō mātou, mō te aroha noa nā te tokomaha i hōmai ki a mātou.

Ka Rerekē ngā Whakaaro o Pāora

12 Ko tā mātou whakamanamana hoki ko tēnei, ko te whakaaetanga ake o tō mātou hinengaro, kei runga i te tapu, i te tapatahi o te Atua, ehara i te mea kei runga i tō te kikokiko mōhio, engari i tō te Atua aroha noa, tā mātou whakahaere i te ao, ki a koutou rawa anō ia. 13 Ehara hoki tā mātou e tuhituhi atu nei ki a koutou i te mea kē i tā koutou e kōrero nā i te pukapuka, e whakaae nā; ā, e ū ana tōku whakaaro, e whakaae koutou taea noatia te mutunga; 14 me koutou anō i whakaae mai nā ko tētahi wāhi ki a mātou, ko mātou tā koutou e whakamanamana ai, pērā hoki me koutou, ko koutou tā mātou e whakamanamana ai i te rā o tō tātou Ariki, o Īhu.

15 Nā, i tōku whakapono ki tēnei, i mea ahau kia haere atu i mua rā ki a koutou, kia rua ai painga ki a koutou; 16 kia tika atu mā koutou nā ki Makeronia, ā, kia hoki mai i Makeronia ki a koutou, ā, mā koutou e whakatika atu tāku haere ki Hūria. 17 Nā, i ahau ka whakaaro i tēnei, i hanga noa iho rānei tōku ngākau? He whakaaro rānei nō te kikokiko ōku whakaaro e mea ai ahau, "Āe, āe, kāhore, kāhore?"

18 Otirā, i te mea he pono te Atua, ehara tā mātou kupu ki a koutou i te "Āe," i te "Kāhore." 19 Ko te Tama hoki a te Atua, ko Īhu Karaiti, i kauwhautia rā e mātou i roto i a koutou, arā e ahau, e Hirawanu, e Tīmoti, ehara i te "Āe," i te "Kāhore" rānei, engari he "Āe" i roto i a ia. 20 Pēwhea ake hoki te maha o ngā kupu hōmai a te Atua, kei roto tonu i a ia te "Āe"; ā, mā roto mai hoki i a ia te "Āmine," hei korōria mō te Atua i roto i a tātou. 21 Nā, ko te kaiwhakaū i a mātou me koutou i roto i a te Karaiti, ko te kaiwhakawahi i a tātou, ko te Atua; 22 nāna tātou i hīri, nāna hoki i hōmai te wāhi tuatahi, arā te Wairua ki roto ki ō tātou ngākau.

23 Nā, ka karanga ahau ki te Atua hei kaititiro mō tōku wairua, he tohu nāku i a koutou tē haere wawe atu ai ahau ki Koriniti. 24 Ehara i te mea hei rangatira mātou mō tō koutou whakapono, engari hei hoa mahi mātou i te hari mō koutou; nā te whakapono hoki koutou i tū ai.