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1:1 Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ by God's will, and the brother
 Timotheus, to the assembly of God which is in Corinth, with all
 the saints who are in the whole of Achaia.
1:2 Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and [the] Lord
 Jesus Christ.
1:3 Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
 the Father of compassions, and God of all encouragement;
1:4 who encourages us in all our tribulation, that we may be
 able to encourage those who are in any tribulation whatever,
 through the encouragement with which we ourselves are
 encouraged of God.
1:5 Because, even as the sufferings of the Christ abound towards
 us, so through the Christ does our encouragement also abound.
1:6 But whether we are in tribulation, [it is] for your
 encouragement and salvation, wrought in the endurance of the
 same sufferings which *we* also suffer,
1:7 (and our hope for you [is] sure;) or whether we are
 encouraged, [it is] for your encouragement and salvation:
 knowing that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also of
 the encouragement.
1:8 For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, as to our
 tribulation which happened [to us] in Asia, that we were
 excessively pressed beyond [our] power, so as to despair even
 of living.
1:9 But we ourselves had the sentence of death in ourselves,
 that we should not have our trust in ourselves, but in God who
 raises the dead;
1:10 who has delivered us from so great a death, and does
 deliver; in whom we confide that he will also yet deliver;
1:11 ye also labouring together by supplication for us that the
 gift towards us, through means of many persons, may be the
 subject of the thanksgiving of many for us.
1:12 For our boasting is this, the testimony of our conscience,
 that in simplicity and sincerity before God, (not in fleshly
 wisdom but in God's grace,) we have had our conversation in the
 world, and more abundantly towards you.
1:13 For we do not write other things to you but what ye well
 know and recognise; and I hope that ye will recognise to the
 end,
1:14 even as also ye have recognised us in part, that we are
 your boast, even as *ye* [are] ours in the day of the Lord
 Jesus.
1:15 And with this confidence I purposed to come to you
 previously, that ye might have a second favour;
1:16 and to pass through to Macedonia by you, and again from
 Macedonia to come to you, and to be set forward by you to
 Judaea.
1:17 Having therefore this purpose, did I then use lightness? Or
 what I purpose, do I purpose according to flesh, that there
 should be with me yea yea, and nay nay?
1:18 Now God [is] faithful, that our word to you is not yea and
 nay.
1:19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, he who has been preached
 by us among you (by me and Silvanus and Timotheus), did not
 become yea and nay, but yea *is* in him.
1:20 For whatever promises of God [there are], in him is the
 yea, and in him the amen, for glory to God by us.
1:21 Now he that establishes us with you in Christ, and has
 anointed us, [is] God,
1:22 who also has sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit
 in our hearts.
1:23 But I call God to witness upon my soul that to spare you I
 have not yet come to Corinth.
1:24 Not that we rule over your faith, but are fellow-workmen of
 your joy: for by faith ye stand.
2:1 But I have judged this with myself, not to come back to you
 in grief.
2:2 For if *I* grieve you, who also [is] it that gladdens me, if
 not he that is grieved through me?
2:3 And I have written this very [letter] [to you], that coming
 I may not have grief from those from whom I ought to have joy;
 trusting in you all that my joy is [that] of you all.
2:4 For out of much tribulation and distress of heart I wrote to
 you, with many tears; not that ye may be grieved, but that ye
 may know the love which I have very abundantly towards you.
2:5 But if any one has grieved, he has grieved, not me, but in
 part (that I may not overcharge [you]) all of you.
2:6 Sufficient to such a one [is] this rebuke which [has been
 inflicted] by the many;
2:7 so that on the contrary ye should rather shew grace and
 encourage, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with
 excessive grief.
2:8 Wherefore I exhort you to assure him of [your] love.
2:9 For to this end also I have written, that I might know, by
 putting you to the test, if as to everything ye are obedient.
2:10 But to whom ye forgive anything, *I* also; for I also, what
 I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, [it is] for your
 sakes in [the] person of Christ;
2:11 that we might not have Satan get an advantage against us,
 for we are not ignorant of *his* thoughts.
2:12 Now when I came to Troas for the [publication of the] glad
 tidings of the Christ, a door also being opened to me in [the]
 Lord,
2:13 I had no rest in my spirit at not finding Titus my brother;
 but bidding them adieu, I came away to Macedonia.
2:14 But thanks [be] to God, who always leads us in triumph in
 the Christ, and makes manifest the odour of his knowledge
 through us in every place.
2:15 For we are a sweet odour of Christ to God, in the saved and
 in those that perish:
2:16 to the one an odour from death unto death, but to the
 others an odour from life unto life; and who [is] sufficient
 for these things?
2:17 For we do not, as the many, make a trade of the word of
 God; but as of sincerity, but as of God, before God, we speak
 in Christ.
3:1 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or do we need, as
 some, commendatory letters to you, or [commendatory] from you?
3:2 *Ye* are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read
 of all men,
3:3 being manifested to be Christ's epistle ministered by us,
 written, not with ink, but [the] Spirit of [the] living God;
 not on stone tables, but on fleshy tables of [the] heart.
3:4 And such confidence have we through the Christ towards God:
3:5 not that we are competent of ourselves to think anything as
 of ourselves, but our competency [is] of God;
3:6 who has also made us competent, [as] ministers of [the] new
 covenant; not of letter, but of spirit. For the letter kills,
 but the Spirit quickens.
3:7 (But if the ministry of death, in letters, graven in stones,
 began with glory, so that the children of Israel could not fix
 their eyes on the face of Moses, on account of the glory of his
 face, [a glory] which is annulled;
3:8 how shall not rather the ministry of the Spirit subsist in
 glory?
3:9 For if the ministry of condemnation [be] glory, much rather
 the ministry of righteousness abounds in glory.
3:10 For also that [which was] glorified is not glorified in
 this respect, on account of the surpassing glory.
3:11 For if that annulled [was introduced] with glory, much
 rather that which abides [subsists] in glory.
3:12 Having therefore such hope, we use much boldness:
3:13 and not according as Moses put a veil on his own face, so
 that the children of Israel should not fix their eyes on the
 end of that annulled.
3:14 But their thoughts have been darkened, for unto this day
 the same veil remains in reading the old covenant, unremoved,
 which in Christ is annulled.
3:15 But unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil lies upon
 their heart.
3:16 But when it shall turn to [the] Lord, the veil is taken
 away.)
3:17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, but where the Spirit of [the]
 Lord [is, there is] liberty.
3:18 But *we* all, looking on the glory of the Lord, with
 unveiled face, are transformed according to the same image from
 glory to glory, even as by [the] Lord [the] Spirit.
4:1 Therefore, having this ministry, as we have had mercy shewn
 us, we faint not.
4:2 But we have rejected the hidden things of shame, not walking
 in deceit, nor falsifying the word of God, but by manifestation
 of the truth commending ourselves to every conscience of men
 before God.
4:3 But if also our gospel is veiled, it is veiled in those that
 are lost;
4:4 in whom the god of this world has blinded the thoughts of
 the unbelieving, so that the radiancy of the glad tidings of
 the glory of the Christ, who is [t