2Corinthians:1

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* Paul , an Apostle of Jesus Christ , by the will of God , and Timothy , the brother , to the congregation of God which is in Corinth , together with all the saints who are in all Achaia : * Favor to you , and peace from God our Father , and from the Lord Jesus Christ . * Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ , the Father of tender mercies , and the God of all consolation ! * who comforts us in all out affliction , that we may be able to comfort them who are in any affliction , by the consolation with which they are comforted of God . * For as the sufferings for Christ abound in us , also , our consolation abounds through Christ . * Now , whether we are afflicted , it is for your comfort , and salvation ; or whether we are comforted , it is for your comfort , which is effected by enduring the same sufferings which we also suffer . * And out hope of you is steadfast , knowing that , as you are partakers of the sufferings , so shall you be also of the comfort . * Wherefore , brethren , we would not have you ignorant concerning our affliction , which happened to us in Asia ; that we were exceedingly pressed above our strength , insomuch as we despaired even of life . * Nay , more , we ourselves had the sentence of death in ourselves , that we might not trust in ourselves , but in God , who raises the dead ; * who delivered us from so great a death , and does deliver ; in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us ; * you , also , laboring together in prayer for us , that the gift to us from many persons , may , by many , be acknowledged with thanksgiving for us . * For this is our glorying-the testimony of our conscience , that with godly simplicity and sincerity , (not with fleshly wisdom , but by the favor of God ,) we have behaved ourselves in the world , and more abundantly among you . * For we write no other things to you than what you read , and also acknowledge ; and I hope that you will acknowledge , even to the end ; * seeing , indeed , you have acknowledged us in part , that we are your boasting , even as you also are ours , in the day of the Lord Jesus . * And in this persuasions I purposed to come to you first , that you might have a second gift ; * and from you to pass through into Macedonia , and from Macedonia to come again to you , and by you to be sent forward into Judea . * Having , then , purposed this , did I , indeed , use levity ? or the things which I purpose , do I purpose according to the flesh ; so that with me there should be yes , yes , and no , no ? * But as God is faithful , certainly our word , which was to you , was not yes and no . * For the Son of God , Jesus Christ , who was proclaimed to you by us , even by me and Sylvanus , and Timothy , was not yes and no ; but in him was yes . * And whatever promises are of God , were through him yes , and through him amen , to the glory of God , by us . * Now , he who establishes us with you in Christ , and who has anointed us , in God : * who has also sealed us , and given us the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts . * Moreover , I call on God as a witness against my soul , that to spare you , I have not as yet come to Corinth . * Not that we lord it over your faith , but we are joint promoters of your joy : for by the faith you stand .

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