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1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and
 Timothy [our] brother, unto the church of God which is at
 Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:
1:2 Grace [be] to you and peace from God our Father, and [from]
 the Lord Jesus Christ.
1:3 Blessed [be] God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
 the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;
1:4 Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be
 able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort
 wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
1:5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our
 consolation also aboundeth by Christ.
1:6 And whether we be afflicted, [it is] for your consolation
 and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same
 sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted,
 [it is] for your consolation and salvation.
1:7 And our hope of you [is] stedfast, knowing, that as ye are
 partakers of the sufferings, so [shall ye be] also of the
 consolation.
1:8 For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble
 which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure,
 above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:
1:9 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we
 should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the
 dead:
1:10 Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver:
 in whom we trust that he will yet deliver [us];
1:11 Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the
 gift [bestowed] upon us by the means of many persons thanks may
 be given by many on our behalf.
1:12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience,
 that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly
 wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation
 in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
1:13 For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read
 or acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the
 end;
1:14 As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your
 rejoicing, even as ye also [are] ours in the day of the Lord
 Jesus.
1:15 And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you
 before, that ye might have a second benefit;
1:16 And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of
 Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward
 Judaea.
1:17 When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or
 the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh,
 that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay?
1:18 But [as] God [is] true, our word toward you was not yea and
 nay.
1:19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among
 you by us, [even] by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea
 and nay, but in him was yea.
1:20 For all the promises of God in him [are] yea, and in him
 Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
1:21 Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath
 anointed us, [is] God;
1:22 Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the
 Spirit in our hearts.
1:23 Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to
 spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.
1:24 Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are
 helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.
2:1 But I determined this with myself, that I would not come
 again to you in heaviness.
2:2 For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad,
 but the same which is made sorry by me?
2:3 And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should
 have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having
 confidence in you all, that my joy is [the joy] of you all.
2:4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto
 you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye
 might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
2:5 But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in
 part: that I may not overcharge you all.
2:6 Sufficient to such a man [is] this punishment, which [was
 inflicted] of many.
2:7 So that contrariwise ye [ought] rather to forgive [him], and
 comfort [him], lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up
 with overmuch sorrow.
2:8 Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm [your] love
 toward him.
2:9 For to this end also did I write, that I might know the
 proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.
2:10 To whom ye forgive any thing, I [forgive] also: for if I
 forgave any thing, to whom I forgave [it], for your sakes
 [forgave I it] in the person of Christ;
2:11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not
 ignorant of his devices.
2:12 Furthermore, when I came to Troas to [preach] Christ's
 gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord,
2:13 I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my
 brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into
 Macedonia.
2:14 Now thanks [be] unto God, which always causeth us to
 triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his
 knowledge by us in every place.
2:15 For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that
 are saved, and in them that perish:
2:16 To the one [we are] the savour of death unto death; and to
 the other the savour of life unto life. And who [is] sufficient
 for these things?
2:17 For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but
 as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in
 Christ.
3:1 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some
 [others], epistles of commendation to you, or [letters] of
 commendation from you?
3:2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of
 all men:
3:3 [Forasmuch as ye are] manifestly declared to be the epistle
 of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the
 Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy
 tables of the heart.
3:4 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:
3:5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing
 as of ourselves; but our sufficiency [is] of God;
3:6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament;
 not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth,
 but the spirit giveth life.
3:7 But if the ministration of death, written [and] engraven in
 stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not
 stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his
 countenance; which [glory] was to be done away:
3:8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather
 glorious?
3:9 For if the ministration of condemnation [be] glory, much
 more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
3:10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this
 respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
3:11 For if that which is done away [was] glorious, much more
 that which remaineth [is] glorious.
3:12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness
 of speech:
3:13 And not as Moses, [which] put a vail over his face, that
 the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of
 that which is abolished:
3:14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth
 the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament;
 which [vail] is done away in Christ.
3:15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is
 upon their heart.
3:16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall
 be taken away.
3:17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the
 Lord [is], there [is] liberty.
3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the
 glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory
 to glory, [even] as by the Spirit of the Lord.
4:1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received
 mercy, we faint not;
4:2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not
 walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God
 deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending
 ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
4:3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them
 which believe no