2Corinthians:1

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* Paul , an apostle of Jesus Christ 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 all Achaia : * Grace to you 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 compassions and God of all comfort , * who encourages us in all our affliction , that we may be able to encourage those who are in any affliction , through the comfort by which we ourselves are encouraged by God . * For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us , so our comfort also abounds through Christ . * Now if we are afflicted , it is for your comfort and salvation , being effective in the endurance of the same sufferings which we also suffer . Or if we are encouraged , it is for your comfort and salvation . * And our hope for you is steadfast , because we know that as you are partakers of the sufferings , so also you will partake of the comfort . * For we do not want you to be ignorant , brethren , of our affliction which came to us in Asia : that we were burdened exceedingly , beyond strength , so that we despaired even of life . * Yes , we had the sentence of death in ourselves , that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead , * who delivered us from so great a death , and does deliver us , in whom we hope that He will still deliver us , * you also helping together in prayer for us , that thanks may be given through many persons on our behalf for the gracious gift granted to us by many . * For our rejoicing is this : the testimony of our conscience , that we conducted ourselves in the world in simplicity and godly sincerity , not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God , and more abundantly toward you . * For we are not writing any other things to you than what you read or understand . And I hope you will understand , even to the end * (as also you have understood us in part ), that we are your rejoicing as you also are ours , in the day of the Lord Jesus . * And in this confidence I intended to come to you before now , that you might have a second benefit ; * to journey on through you to Macedonia , to come again from Macedonia to you , and be sent by you on towards Judea . * Therefore , when I was planning this , did I do it lightly ? Or the things I plan , do I plan according to the flesh , that with me there should be Yes , Yes , and No , No ? * But as God is faithful , our word to you was not Yes and No . * For the Son of God , Jesus Christ , who was preached among you through us ; through me , Silvanus , and Timothy ; was not Yes and No , but in Him was Yes . * For as many promises as are of God , in Him are Yes , and in Him Amen , unto the glory of God through us . * Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us is God , * who also has sealed us and given us the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts . * Moreover I call God as witness against my soul , that to spare you I came no more to Corinth . * Not that we have dominion over your faith , but are fellow workers of your joy ; for by faith you stand .

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