2Corinthians:1

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* Paul , an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God , and Timothy our brother , to the church of God which is at Corinth , with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia : * Grace to you (note :){+}(:note ) and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ . * Blessed [be ] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ , the Father of mercies and God of all comfort ; * 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 of God . * For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us , even so our comfort also abounds through Christ . * But whether we are afflicted , it is for your (note :){+}(:note ) comfort and salvation ; or whether we are comforted , it is for your {+} comfort , which works in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer : * and our hope for you (note :){+}(:note ) is steadfast ; knowing that , as you {+} are partners of the sufferings , so also are you {+} of the comfort . * For we would not have you (note :){+}(:note ) ignorant , brothers , concerning our affliction which befell [us ] in Asia , that we were exceedingly weighed down , beyond our power , insomuch that we despaired even of life : * yes , we ourselves have had the sentence of death inside ourselves , that we should not trust in ourselves , but in God who raises the dead : * 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 ; * you (note :){+}(:note ) also helping together on our behalf by your {+} supplication ; that , for the gift bestowed on us by means of many , thanks may be given by many persons on our behalf . * For our glorifying is this , the testimony of our conscience , that in simplicity and sincerity of God , and not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God , we behaved ourselves in the world , and more abundantly toward you (note :){+}(:note ). * For we write no other things to you (note :){+}(:note ), than what you {+} read or even acknowledge , and I hope you {+} will acknowledge to the end : * as also you (note :){+}(:note ) did acknowledge us in part , that we are your {+} glorying , even as you {+} also are ours , in the day of our Lord Jesus . * And in this confidence I was minded to come first to you (note :){+}(:note ), that you {+} might have a second benefit ; * and by you (note :){+}(:note ) to pass into Macedonia , and again from Macedonia to come to you {+}, and of you {+} to be set forward on my journey to Judea . * 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 yes yes and the no no ? * But as God is faithful , our word toward you (note :){+}(:note ) is not yes and no . * For God 's Son , Jesus Christ , who was preached among you (note :){+}(:note ) by us , [even ] by me and Silvanus and Timothy , was not yes and no , but in him is yes . * 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 . * Now he who establishes us with you (note :){+}(:note ) in Christ , and anointed us , is God ; * who also sealed us , and gave [us ] the security deposit of the Spirit in our hearts . * But I call God for a witness on my soul , that to spare you (note :){+}(:note ) I forbare to come to Corinth . * Not that we have lordship over your (note :){+}(:note ) faith , but are coworkers of your {+} joy : for in faith you {+} stand fast .

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