1 Paul, ARom 1:1; Gal 1:1; Eph 1:1; Col 1:1; 2 Tim 1:1; Titus 1:1an apostle of BGal 3:26Christ Jesus C1 Cor 1:1by the will of God, and DActs 16:1; 1 Cor 16:10; 2 Cor 1:19Timothy our brother,

To E1 Cor 10:32the church of God which is at FActs 18:1Corinth with all the 1Or holy onessaints who are throughout GActs 18:12Achaia:

2 ARom 1:7Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

3 AEph 1:3; 1 Pet 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and BRom 15:5God of all comfort, 4 who AIs 51:12; 66:13; 2 Cor 7:6, 7, 13comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in 1Lit everyany affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 5 For just A2 Cor 4:10; Phil 3:10; Col 1:24as the sufferings of Christ are 1Lit to usours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ. 6 But if we are afflicted, it is A2 Cor 4:15; 12:15; Eph 3:1, 13; 2 Tim 2:10for your comfort and salvation; or if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which is effective in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer; 7 and our hope for you is firmly grounded, knowing that ARom 8:17as you are sharers of our sufferings, so also you are sharers of our comfort.

8 For ARom 1:13we do not want you to be unaware, brethren, of our BActs 19:23; 1 Cor 15:32affliction which came to us in 1I.e. west coast province of Asia MinorCActs 16:6Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life; 9 1Lit but we ourselvesindeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead; 10 who ARom 15:31delivered us from so great a peril of death, and will deliver us, 1One early ms reads on whom we have set our hope that He will alsoHe B1 Tim 4:10on whom we have set our hope. And He will yet deliver us, 11 you also joining in ARom 15:30; Phil 1:19; Philem 22helping us through your prayers, so that thanks may be given by B2 Cor 4:15; 9:11fmany persons on our behalf for the favor bestowed on us through the prayers of many.

12 For our 1Lit boastingproud confidence is this: the testimony of AActs 23:1; 1 Thess 2:10; Heb 13:18our conscience, that in holiness and B2 Cor 2:17godly sincerity, C1 Cor 1:17; James 3:15not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you. 13 For we write nothing else to you than what you read and understand, and I hope you will understand A1 Cor 1:8until the end; 14 just as you also partially did understand us, that we are your reason to be proud as you also are ours, in A1 Cor 1:8the day of our Lord Jesus.

15 In this confidence I intended at first to A1 Cor 4:19come to you, so that you might 1Lit have a second gracetwice receive a 2One early ms reads joyBRom 1:11; 15:29blessing; 16 1Lit andthat is, to AActs 19:21; 1 Cor 16:5-7pass 2Lit through you intoyour way into BActs 19:21; Rom 15:26Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and by you to be CActs 15:3; 1 Cor 16:6, 11helped on my journey to Judea. 17 Therefore, I was not vacillating when I intended to do this, was I? Or what I purpose, do I purpose A2 Cor 10:2f; 11:18according to the flesh, so that with me there will be yes, yes and no, no at the same time? 18 But as A1 Cor 1:9God is faithful, B2 Cor 2:17our word to you is not yes and no. 19 For AMatt 4:3; 16:16; 26:63the Son of God, Christ Jesus, who was preached among you by us—by me and BActs 15:22; 1 Thess 1:1; 2 Thess 1:1; 1 Pet 5:12Silvanus and CActs 18:5; 2 Cor 1:1Timothy—was not yes and no, but is yes DHeb 13:8in Him. 20 For ARom 15:8as many as are the promises of God, BHeb 13:8in Him they are yes; therefore also through Him is C1 Cor 14:16; Rev 3:14our Amen to the glory of God through us. 21 Now He who A1 Cor 1:8establishes us with you in Christ and B1 John 2:20, 27anointed us is God, 22 who also AJohn 3:33sealed us and BRom 8:16; 2 Cor 5:5; Eph 1:14gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a 1Or down paymentpledge.

23 But ARom 1:9; Gal 1:20I call God as witness 1Lit uponto my soul, that B1 Cor 4:21; 2 Cor 2:1, 3to spare you I did not come again to C2 Cor 1:1Corinth. 24 Not that we A2 Cor 4:5; 11:20; 1 Pet 5:3lord it over your faith, but are workers with you for your joy; for in your faith you are BRom 11:20; 1 Cor 15:1standing firm.