| New American Standard Bible 1995 | Berean Study Bible |
| 1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God which is at Corinth with all the saints who are throughout Achaia: | 1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God in Corinth, together with all the saints throughout Achaia: |
| 2Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. | 2Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. |
| 3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, | 3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, |
| 4who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. | 4who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God. |
| 5For just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ. | 5For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, so also through Christ our comfort overflows. |
| 6But if we are afflicted, it is for 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; | 6If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which accomplishes in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we experience. |
| 7and our hope for you is firmly grounded, knowing that as you are sharers of our sufferings, so also you are sharers of our comfort. | 7And our hope for you is sure, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you will share in our comfort. |
| 8For we do not want you to be unaware, brethren, of our affliction which came to us in Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life; | 8We do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the hardships we encountered in the province of Asia. We were under a burden far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life. |
| 9indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead; | 9Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead. |
| 10who delivered us from so great a peril of death, and will deliver us, He on whom we have set our hope. And He will yet deliver us, | 10He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and He will deliver us. In Him we have placed our hope that He will yet again deliver us, |
| 11you also joining in helping us through your prayers, so that thanks may be given by many persons on our behalf for the favor bestowed on us through the prayers of many. | 11as you help us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the favor shown us in answer to their prayers. |
| 12For our proud confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and godly sincerity, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you. | 12And this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in relation to you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God—not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God. |
| 13For we write nothing else to you than what you read and understand, and I hope you will understand until the end; | 13For we do not write you anything that is beyond your ability to read and understand. And I hope that you will understand us completely, |
| 14just as you also partially did understand us, that we are your reason to be proud as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus. | 14as you have already understood us in part, so that you may boast of us just as we will boast of you in the day of our Lord Jesus. |
| 15In this confidence I intended at first to come to you, so that you might twice receive a blessing; | 15Confident of this, I planned to visit you first, so that you might receive a double blessing. |
| 16that is, to pass your way into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and by you to be helped on my journey to Judea. | 16I wanted to visit you on my way to Macedonia, and to return to you from Macedonia, and then to have you help me on my way to Judea. |
| 17Therefore, I was not vacillating when I intended to do this, was I? Or what I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, so that with me there will be yes, yes and no, no at the same time? | 17When I planned this, did I do it carelessly? Or do I make my plans by human standards, so as to say “Yes, yes” when I really mean “No, no”? |
| 18But as God is faithful, our word to you is not yes and no. | 18But as surely as God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes” and “No.” |
| 19For the Son of God, Christ Jesus, who was preached among you by us-- by me and Silvanus and Timothy-- was not yes and no, but is yes in Him. | 19For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was proclaimed among you by me and Silvanus and Timothy, was not “Yes” and “No,” but in Him it has always been “Yes.” |
| 20For as many as are the promises of God, in Him they are yes; therefore also through Him is our Amen to the glory of God through us. | 20For all the promises of God are “Yes” in Christ. And so through Him, our “Amen” is spoken to the glory of God. |
| 21Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God, | 21Now it is God who establishes both us and you in Christ. He anointed us, |
| 22who also sealed us and gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a pledge. | 22placed His seal on us, and put His Spirit in our hearts as a pledge of what is to come. |
| 23But I call God as witness to my soul, that to spare you I did not come again to Corinth. | 23I call God as my witness that it was in order to spare you that I did not return to Corinth. |
| 24Not that we lord it over your faith, but are workers with you for your joy; for in your faith you are standing firm. | 24Not that we lord it over your faith, but we are fellow workers with you for your joy, because it is by faith that you stand firm. |
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