New American Standard Bible 1995

2 Corinthians 1:9-24

9 1indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead; 10who 2delivered us from so great a peril of death, and will deliver us, 3He 4on whom we have set our hope. And He will yet deliver us, 11you also joining in 5helping us through your prayers, so that thanks may be given by 6many persons on our behalf for the favor bestowed on us through the prayers of many.

12For our 7proud confidence is this: the testimony of 8our conscience, that in holiness and 9godly sincerity, 10not 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 11until the end; 14just as you also partially did understand us, that we are your reason to be proud as you also are ours, in 12the day of our Lord Jesus.

15In this confidence I intended at first to 13come to you, so that you might 14twice receive a 15 16blessing; 16 17that is, to 18pass 19your way into 20Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and by you to be 21helped 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 22according to the flesh, so that with me there will be yes, yes and no, no at the same time? 18But as 23God is faithful, 24our word to you is not yes and no. 19For 25the Son of God, Christ Jesus, who was preached among you by us--by me and 26Silvanus and 27Timothy--was not yes and no, but is yes 28in Him. 20For 29as many as are the promises of God, 30in Him they are yes; therefore also through Him is 31our Amen to the glory of God through us. 21Now He who 32establishes us with you in Christ and 33anointed us is God, 22who also 34sealed us and 35gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a 36pledge.

23But 37I call God as witness 38to my soul, that 39to spare you I did not come again to 40Corinth. 24Not that we 41lord it over your faith, but are workers with you for your joy; for in your faith you are 42standing firm.

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Notes

1. 2 Corinthians 1:9 Lit but we ourselves ↩
2. 2 Corinthians 1:10 Rom 15:31 ↩
3. 2 Corinthians 1:10 One early ms reads on whom we have set our hope that He will also ↩
4. 2 Corinthians 1:10 1 Tim 4:10 ↩
5. 2 Corinthians 1:11 Rom 15:30; Phil 1:19; Philem 22 ↩
6. 2 Corinthians 1:11 2 Cor 4:15; 9:11f ↩
7. 2 Corinthians 1:12 Lit boasting ↩
8. 2 Corinthians 1:12 Acts 23:1; 1 Thess 2:10; Heb 13:18 ↩
9. 2 Corinthians 1:12 2 Cor 2:17 ↩
10. 2 Corinthians 1:12 1 Cor 1:17; James 3:15 ↩
11. 2 Corinthians 1:13 1 Cor 1:8 ↩
12. 2 Corinthians 1:14 1 Cor 1:8 ↩
13. 2 Corinthians 1:15 1 Cor 4:19 ↩
14. 2 Corinthians 1:15 Lit have a second grace ↩
15. 2 Corinthians 1:15 One early ms reads joy ↩
16. 2 Corinthians 1:15 Rom 1:11; 15:29 ↩
17. 2 Corinthians 1:16 Lit and ↩
18. 2 Corinthians 1:16 Acts 19:21; 1 Cor 16:5-7 ↩
19. 2 Corinthians 1:16 Lit through you into ↩
20. 2 Corinthians 1:16 Acts 19:21; Rom 15:26 ↩
21. 2 Corinthians 1:16 Acts 15:3; 1 Cor 16:6, 11 ↩
22. 2 Corinthians 1:17 2 Cor 10:2f; 11:18 ↩
23. 2 Corinthians 1:18 1 Cor 1:9 ↩
24. 2 Corinthians 1:18 2 Cor 2:17 ↩
25. 2 Corinthians 1:19 Matt 4:3; 16:16; 26:63 ↩
26. 2 Corinthians 1:19 Acts 15:22; 1 Thess 1:1; 2 Thess 1:1; 1 Pet 5:12 ↩
27. 2 Corinthians 1:19 Acts 18:5; 2 Cor 1:1 ↩
28. 2 Corinthians 1:19 Heb 13:8 ↩
29. 2 Corinthians 1:20 Rom 15:8 ↩
30. 2 Corinthians 1:20 Heb 13:8 ↩
31. 2 Corinthians 1:20 1 Cor 14:16; Rev 3:14 ↩
32. 2 Corinthians 1:21 1 Cor 1:8 ↩
33. 2 Corinthians 1:21 1 John 2:20, 27 ↩
34. 2 Corinthians 1:22 John 3:33 ↩
35. 2 Corinthians 1:22 Rom 8:16; 2 Cor 5:5; Eph 1:14 ↩
36. 2 Corinthians 1:22 Or down payment ↩
37. 2 Corinthians 1:23 Rom 1:9; Gal 1:20 ↩
38. 2 Corinthians 1:23 Lit upon ↩
39. 2 Corinthians 1:23 1 Cor 4:21; 2 Cor 2:1, 3 ↩
40. 2 Corinthians 1:23 2 Cor 1:1 ↩
41. 2 Corinthians 1:24 2 Cor 4:5; 11:20; 1 Pet 5:3 ↩
42. 2 Corinthians 1:24 Rom 11:20; 1 Cor 15:1 ↩

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