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1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and
 Timothy [our] brother, to the church of God which is at
 Corinth, with all the saints who 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 consolation.
1:4 Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be
 able to comfort them who are in any trouble by the consolation
 with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
1:5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our
 consolation also aboundeth by Christ.
1:6 And whether we are 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 are comforted,
 [it is] for your consolation and salvation.
1:7 And our hope of you [is] steadfast, 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, so 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 who 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 manner of life
 in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
1:13 For we write no other things to you, than what ye read or
 acknowledge; and I trust ye will 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 purposed to come to you before,
 that ye might have a second benefit;
1:16 And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again from
 Macedonia to you, and by you to be brought on my way towards
 Judea.
1:17 When I therefore was thus minded, did I use levity? 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 towards 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 Timothy, 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, to the glory of God by us.
1:21 Now he who establisheth 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 witness upon my soul, that to
 spare you I have not as yet come to 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 who is made sorry by me?
2:3 And I wrote this same to you, lest, coming I should have
 sorrow from them by 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 to
 you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye
 might know the love which I have more abundantly to you.
2:5 But if any hath 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] by many.
2:7 So that on the other hand, ye [ought] rather to forgive
 [him], and comfort [him], lest perhaps such one should be
 swallowed up with excessive sorrow.
2:8 Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm [your] love
 towards him.
2:9 For to this end also I wrote, that I might know the proof of
 you, whether ye are 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 [I
 forgave 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] the gospel of
 Christ, and a door was opened to me by 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] to God, who always causeth us to triumph in
 Christ, and maketh manifest the savor of his knowledge by us in
 every place.
2:15 For we are to God a sweet savor of Christ, in them that are
 saved, and in them that perish:
2:16 To the one [we are] the savor of death to death; and to the
 other the savor of life to life. And who [is] sufficient for
 these things?
2:17 For we are not as many, who corrupt the word of God: but as
 from sincerity, but as from God, in the sight of God we speak
 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 by
 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 on tables of stone, but on
 fleshly tables of the heart.
3:4 And such trust we have through Christ toward God.
3:5 Not that we are sufficient by ourselves to think any thing
 as from ourselves; but our sufficiency [is] from 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 on
 stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not
 steadfastly 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 [was] 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 was 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, [who] put a vail over his face, that the
 children of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of
 that which is abolished:
3:14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day the same
 vail remaineth untaken away in the reading of the old
 testament; which [vail] is done away in Christ.
3:15 But even to 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 is hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them
 who believe not, lest the light of the glor