2 Corinthians 1:1-9 ▼

1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy the brother, To the church of God being in Corinth, with all the saints being in all Achaia:

2 Grace to you? and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassions and God of all comfort,

4 the One comforting us in all our tribulation, for us to be able to comfort those in every tribulation through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God,

5 because just as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, so through Christ our comfort also abounds.

6 But if we are hard pressed, it is for your? comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your? comfort, operating in the endurance of the same sufferings that we also suffer.

7 And our hope for you? is sure, knowing that as you? are fellow partakers of the sufferings, so also of the comfort.

8 For we do not want you? to be ignorant brothers, as to our tribulation having happened in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so as for us to despair even to live.

9 But we have had in ourselves the sentence of death, so that we should not be trusting in ourselves, but in God, the One raising the dead,