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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>2 Corinthians 1 BLB</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_corinthians/1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap//2_corinthians/1-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">BLB</a> > 2 Corinthians 1</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/berean/2_corinthians/1.htm" width="100%" height="32" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_corinthians/16.htm" title="1 Corinthians 16">◄</a> 2 Corinthians 1 <a href="../2_corinthians/2.htm" title="2 Corinthians 2">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Berean Literal Bible</div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Paul Greets the Corinthians<br /><span class="cross">(1 Corinthians 1:1-3)</span></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by <i>the</i> will of God, and Timothy <i>our</i> brother,</p><p class="reg"> To the church of God being in Corinth, with all the saints being in all Achaia. </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Grace to you and peace from God our Father and <i>the</i> Lord Jesus Christ. </p><p class="hdg">The God of All Comfort</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Blessed <i>be</i> the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassions, and God of all comfort, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>the <i>One</i> comforting us in all our tribulation, for us to be able to comfort those in every tribulation through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>because as the sufferings of the Christ abound toward us, so through Christ our comfort also abounds. </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But if we are constricted, <i>it is</i> for your comfort and salvation; if we are encouraged, <i>it is</i> for your comfort, operating in <i>the</i> endurance of the same sufferings that we also suffer. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And our hope for you <i>is</i> sure, knowing that as you are partners of <i>our</i> sufferings, so also of <i>our</i> comfort. </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For we do not want you to be ignorant brothers, as to our affliction having happened in Asia, that we were weighed against excessively, beyond <i>our</i> power, so as for us to despair even to live. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Indeed we had in ourselves the sentence of death, in order that we should not be trusting in ourselves, but in God, the <i>One</i> raising the dead, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>who has delivered us from such a great death and will deliver <i>us</i>, in whom we have hope that also He will deliver <i>us</i> still, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>of you also joining together for us by supplication, so that thanks may be given for us by many persons for the grace bestowed toward us through many. </p><p class="hdg">Paul's Change of Plans</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you, in <i>the</i> purity and sincerity of God, and not in fleshly wisdom but in <i>the</i> grace of God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>For we write no other things to you other than what you read or even understand. And I hope that you will understand to <i>the</i> end, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>as also you have understood us in part, so that we are your boasting, even as you <i>are</i> also ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus. </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And with this confidence I was planning to come to you previously, so that you might have a second blessing of grace, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>and through you to pass through into Macedonia, and to come to you again from Macedonia, and to be set forward by you to Judea. </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Thus purposing, therefore then, did I use lightness? Or do I purpose what I purpose according to flesh, so that with me there should be “Yes, yes” and “No, no”? <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>But God <i>is</i> faithful, that our word to you was not “Yes” and “No.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, having been proclaimed among you by us—by me and Silvanus<span class="fn"><a href="#fna" title="That is, Silas">a</a></span> and Timothy—was not “Yes” and “No,” but it has always been “Yes” in Him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>For as many as <i>are the</i> promises of God, in Him <i>is</i> the “Yes.” Therefore also in Him, the “Amen” by us <i>is</i> for glory to God. </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Now the <i>One</i> establishing us with you unto Christ, and having anointed us, <i>is</i> God, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/1-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>the <i>One</i> also having sealed us and having given the pledge of the Spirit in our hearts. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/1-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>But I call God as witness upon my soul, that sparing you, I have not yet come to Corinth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_corinthians/1-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Not that we lord it over your faith, but are fellow workers with you of joy; for in the faith you stand firm.<A name="fn"><br /><br /></p><A name="fna"></a><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">19</span> <span class="footnote">That is, Silas</span><br /><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible<br /><a href="//berean.bible">www.Berean.Bible</a><br /><br /><a href="//literalbible.com">Berean Literal Bible (BLB)</a><br />© 2016 by <a href="//biblehub.com">Bible Hub</a> and <a href="//berean.bible">Berean.Bible</a><br />Used by Permission. 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