1Gk. the brother,
1: 2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
1: 3 Blessed be 2the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;
2See note on Ro 15:6.
1: 4 who comforteth us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort them that are in any affliction, through the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
1: 5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound unto us, even so our comfort also aboundeth through Christ.
1: 6 But whether we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or whether we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which worketh in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer:
1: 7 and our hope for you is stedfast; knowing that, as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also are ye of the comfort.
1: 8 For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning our affliction which befell us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, insomuch that we despaired even of life:
1: 9 3yes, we ourselves have had the 4sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead:
3Or, but we ourselves
4Gk. answer
1: 10 who delivered us out of so great a death, 5and will deliver: on whom we have 6set our hope that he will also still deliver us;
5So p46ℵBC 33 81 copsa,bo arm vg. 1739 0243 1881 and a majority of lesser Gk. mss. read and doth deliver: A D* omit these words.
6So ℵCA 33 81 and the majority of lesser Gk. mss., copsa,bo arm vg. p46B 1739 0243 1881 read set our hope; and still will he deliver us;
1: 11 ye also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift bestowed upon us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on 7our behalf.
7So ℵCA 1739 33 81 0243 copsa,bo arm vg. p46B 0150 read your behalf.
1: 12 For our glorying is this, the witness of our conscience, that in 8holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
8So p46ℵ*BCA 1739 33 81 0243 copsa,bo arm. D and a majority of lesser Gk. mss., vg read simplicity
1: 13 For we write no other things unto you, than what ye read or even acknowledge, and I hope ye will acknowledge unto the end:
1: 14 as also ye did acknowledge us in part, that we are your glorying, even as ye also are ours, in the day of 9our Lord Jesus.
9So ℵB 1739 33 81 0243 copsa,bo arm vg. p46CA and a majority of lesser Gk. mss. read the Lord Jesus.
1: 15 And in this confidence I was minded to come first unto you, that ye might have a second 10benefit;
10Or. grace; So ℵ*CA 1739 33 0243 copsa arm vg. B 81 1175 copbo read joy.
1: 16 and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come unto you, and of you to be set forward on my journey unto Judea.
1: 17 When I therefore was thus minded, did I show fickleness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose 11according to the flesh, that with me there should be the yes yes and the no no?
11Or, according to the flesh? that with me it may be, My yes means yes, and my no means no.
1: 18 But as God is faithful, our word toward you is not a vague yes and no.
1: 19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you 12by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timothy, became not yes and no, but in him has become Yes!
12Gk. through (both times).
1: 20 For how many soever be the promises of God, in him is the Yes: wherefore also through him is the Amen, unto the glory of God through us.
1: 21 Now he that establisheth us with you 13in Christ, and anointed us, is God;
13Gk. into
1: 22 14who also sealed us, and gave us the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
14Or, seeing that he both sealed us and etc.
1: 23 But I call God for a witness upon my soul, that to spare you I forbare to come unto Corinth.
1: 24 Not that we have lordship over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for in 15faith ye stand fast.
15Or, your faith
