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New American Standard Bible 1995

2 Corinthians 1

Introduction

1Paul, 1an apostle of 2Christ Jesus 3by the will of God, and 4Timothy our brother,

To 5the church of God which is at 6Corinth with all the 7saints who are throughout 8Achaia:

29Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

310Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and 11God of all comfort, 4who 12comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in 13any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 5For just 14as the sufferings of Christ are 15ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ. 6But if we are afflicted, it is 16for your comfort and salvation; or if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which is effective in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer; 7and our hope for you is firmly grounded, knowing that 17as you are sharers of our sufferings, so also you are sharers of our comfort.

8For 18we do not want you to be unaware, brethren, of our 19affliction which came to us in 2021Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life; 922indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead; 10who 23delivered us from so great a peril of death, and will deliver us, 24He 25on whom we have set our hope. And He will yet deliver us, 11you also joining in 26helping us through your prayers, so that thanks may be given by 27many persons on our behalf for the favor bestowed on us through the prayers of many.

Paul’s Integrity

12For our 28proud confidence is this: the testimony of 29our conscience, that in holiness and 30godly sincerity, 31not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you. 13For we write nothing else to you than what you read and understand, and I hope you will understand 32until the end; 14just as you also partially did understand us, that we are your reason to be proud as you also are ours, in 33the day of our Lord Jesus.

15In this confidence I intended at first to 34come to you, so that you might 35twice receive a 3637blessing; 1638that is, to 39pass 40your way into 41Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and by you to be 42helped on my journey to Judea. 17Therefore, I was not vacillating when I intended to do this, was I? Or what I purpose, do I purpose 43according to the flesh, so that with me there will be yes, yes and no, no at the same time? 18But as 44God is faithful, 45our word to you is not yes and no. 19For 46the Son of God, Christ Jesus, who was preached among you by us--by me and 47Silvanus and 48Timothy--was not yes and no, but is yes 49in Him. 20For 50as many as are the promises of God, 51in Him they are yes; therefore also through Him is 52our Amen to the glory of God through us. 21Now He who 53establishes us with you in Christ and 54anointed us is God, 22who also 55sealed us and 56gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a 57pledge.

23But 58I call God as witness 59to my soul, that 60to spare you I did not come again to 61Corinth. 24Not that we 62lord it over your faith, but are workers with you for your joy; for in your faith you are 63standing firm.

Notes

  1. 1. 2 Corinthians 1:1 Rom 1:1; Gal 1:1; Eph 1:1; Col 1:1; 2 Tim 1:1; Titus 1:1 ↩
  2. 2. 2 Corinthians 1:1 Gal 3:26 ↩
  3. 3. 2 Corinthians 1:1 1 Cor 1:1 ↩
  4. 4. 2 Corinthians 1:1 Acts 16:1; 1 Cor 16:10; 2 Cor 1:19 ↩
  5. 5. 2 Corinthians 1:1 1 Cor 10:32 ↩
  6. 6. 2 Corinthians 1:1 Acts 18:1 ↩
  7. 7. 2 Corinthians 1:1 Or holy ones ↩
  8. 8. 2 Corinthians 1:1 Acts 18:12 ↩
  9. 9. 2 Corinthians 1:2 Rom 1:7 ↩
  10. 10. 2 Corinthians 1:3 Eph 1:3; 1 Pet 1:3 ↩
  11. 11. 2 Corinthians 1:3 Rom 15:5 ↩
  12. 12. 2 Corinthians 1:4 Is 51:12; 66:13; 2 Cor 7:6, 7, 13 ↩
  13. 13. 2 Corinthians 1:4 Lit every ↩
  14. 14. 2 Corinthians 1:5 2 Cor 4:10; Phil 3:10; Col 1:24 ↩
  15. 15. 2 Corinthians 1:5 Lit to us ↩
  16. 16. 2 Corinthians 1:6 2 Cor 4:15; 12:15; Eph 3:1, 13; 2 Tim 2:10 ↩
  17. 17. 2 Corinthians 1:7 Rom 8:17 ↩
  18. 18. 2 Corinthians 1:8 Rom 1:13 ↩
  19. 19. 2 Corinthians 1:8 Acts 19:23; 1 Cor 15:32 ↩
  20. 20. 2 Corinthians 1:8 I.e. west coast province of Asia Minor ↩
  21. 21. 2 Corinthians 1:8 Acts 16:6 ↩
  22. 22. 2 Corinthians 1:9 Lit but we ourselves ↩
  23. 23. 2 Corinthians 1:10 Rom 15:31 ↩
  24. 24. 2 Corinthians 1:10 One early ms reads on whom we have set our hope that He will also ↩
  25. 25. 2 Corinthians 1:10 1 Tim 4:10 ↩
  26. 26. 2 Corinthians 1:11 Rom 15:30; Phil 1:19; Philem 22 ↩
  27. 27. 2 Corinthians 1:11 2 Cor 4:15; 9:11f ↩
  28. 28. 2 Corinthians 1:12 Lit boasting ↩
  29. 29. 2 Corinthians 1:12 Acts 23:1; 1 Thess 2:10; Heb 13:18 ↩
  30. 30. 2 Corinthians 1:12 2 Cor 2:17 ↩
  31. 31. 2 Corinthians 1:12 1 Cor 1:17; James 3:15 ↩
  32. 32. 2 Corinthians 1:13 1 Cor 1:8 ↩
  33. 33. 2 Corinthians 1:14 1 Cor 1:8 ↩
  34. 34. 2 Corinthians 1:15 1 Cor 4:19 ↩
  35. 35. 2 Corinthians 1:15 Lit have a second grace ↩
  36. 36. 2 Corinthians 1:15 One early ms reads joy ↩
  37. 37. 2 Corinthians 1:15 Rom 1:11; 15:29 ↩
  38. 38. 2 Corinthians 1:16 Lit and ↩
  39. 39. 2 Corinthians 1:16 Acts 19:21; 1 Cor 16:5-7 ↩
  40. 40. 2 Corinthians 1:16 Lit through you into ↩
  41. 41. 2 Corinthians 1:16 Acts 19:21; Rom 15:26 ↩
  42. 42. 2 Corinthians 1:16 Acts 15:3; 1 Cor 16:6, 11 ↩
  43. 43. 2 Corinthians 1:17 2 Cor 10:2f; 11:18 ↩
  44. 44. 2 Corinthians 1:18 1 Cor 1:9 ↩
  45. 45. 2 Corinthians 1:18 2 Cor 2:17 ↩
  46. 46. 2 Corinthians 1:19 Matt 4:3; 16:16; 26:63 ↩
  47. 47. 2 Corinthians 1:19 Acts 15:22; 1 Thess 1:1; 2 Thess 1:1; 1 Pet 5:12 ↩
  48. 48. 2 Corinthians 1:19 Acts 18:5; 2 Cor 1:1 ↩
  49. 49. 2 Corinthians 1:19 Heb 13:8 ↩
  50. 50. 2 Corinthians 1:20 Rom 15:8 ↩
  51. 51. 2 Corinthians 1:20 Heb 13:8 ↩
  52. 52. 2 Corinthians 1:20 1 Cor 14:16; Rev 3:14 ↩
  53. 53. 2 Corinthians 1:21 1 Cor 1:8 ↩
  54. 54. 2 Corinthians 1:21 1 John 2:20, 27 ↩
  55. 55. 2 Corinthians 1:22 John 3:33 ↩
  56. 56. 2 Corinthians 1:22 Rom 8:16; 2 Cor 5:5; Eph 1:14 ↩
  57. 57. 2 Corinthians 1:22 Or down payment ↩
  58. 58. 2 Corinthians 1:23 Rom 1:9; Gal 1:20 ↩
  59. 59. 2 Corinthians 1:23 Lit upon ↩
  60. 60. 2 Corinthians 1:23 1 Cor 4:21; 2 Cor 2:1, 3 ↩
  61. 61. 2 Corinthians 1:23 2 Cor 1:1 ↩
  62. 62. 2 Corinthians 1:24 2 Cor 4:5; 11:20; 1 Pet 5:3 ↩
  63. 63. 2 Corinthians 1:24 Rom 11:20; 1 Cor 15:1 ↩

Commentaries on 2 Corinthians 1

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