2 Corinthians 1

1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:Cross-references: Acts 16:1 · Acts 18:1 · Rom 1:1 · Rom 15:26 · Rom 16:5 · Rom 16:21 · +19 more

2Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.Cross-references: 2Sam 15:20 · 1Chr 12:18 · Dan 4:1 · Rom 1:7 · 1Cor 1:3 · Gal 6:16 · +6 more

3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,Cross-references: Gen 14:20 · 1Chr 29:10 · Neh 9:5 · Job 1:21 · Ps 18:46 · Ps 72:19 · +16 more

4who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.Cross-references: Ps 32:5 · Ps 32:7 · Ps 34:2 · Ps 66:16 · Ps 86:17 · Isa 12:1 · +17 more

5For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.Cross-references: Luke 2:25 · Acts 9:4 · 1Cor 4:10 · 2Cor 4:10 · 2Cor 11:23 · Phil 1:20 · +4 more

6But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.Cross-references: Acts 21:5 · Rom 5:3 · Rom 8:28 · 1Cor 3:21 · 2Cor 1:4 · 2Cor 4:15 · +6 more

7Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so you are also of the comfort.Cross-references: Matt 5:11 · Luke 22:28 · Rom 8:17 · 1Cor 10:13 · 2Cor 1:14 · 2Cor 7:9 · +7 more

8For we don’t desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia: that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.Cross-references: 1Sam 20:3 · 1Sam 27:1 · Acts 19:23 · 1Cor 4:8 · 1Cor 15:32 · 1Cor 16:9 · +1 more

9Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,Cross-references: Job 40:14 · Ps 22:29 · Ps 44:5 · Prov 28:26 · Jer 9:23 · Jer 17:5 · +9 more

10who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver, on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us,Cross-references: 1Sam 7:12 · 1Sam 17:37 · Job 5:17 · Ps 34:19 · Isa 46:3 · Acts 26:21 · +4 more

11you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift given to us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on your behalf.Cross-references: Isa 37:4 · Isa 62:6 · Acts 12:5 · Rom 15:30 · 2Cor 4:15 · 2Cor 9:11 · +9 more

12For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.Cross-references: Josh 24:14 · Job 13:15 · Job 23:10 · Job 27:5 · Job 31:1 · Ps 7:3 · +31 more

13For we write no other things to you than what you read or even acknowledge, and I hope you will acknowledge to the end—Cross-references: 2Cor 4:2 · 2Cor 5:11 · 2Cor 13:6 · Phlm 1:6

14as also you acknowledged us in part—that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.Cross-references: Rom 11:25 · 1Cor 1:8 · 1Cor 3:21 · 1Cor 11:18 · 1Cor 15:31 · 2Cor 2:5 · +10 more

15In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit,Cross-references: Rom 1:11 · Rom 15:29 · 1Cor 4:19 · 1Cor 11:34 · 2Cor 6:1 · Phil 1:25

16and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be sent forward by you on my journey to Judea.Cross-references: Acts 19:21 · Acts 21:5 · 1Cor 16:5

17When I therefore planned this, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I plan, do I plan according to the flesh, that with me there should be the “Yes, yes” and the “No, no?”Cross-references: Judg 9:4 · Jer 23:32 · Zeph 3:4 · Matt 5:37 · John 8:15 · 2Cor 1:12 · +6 more

18But as God is faithful, our word toward you was not “Yes and no.”Cross-references: John 7:28 · John 8:26 · 1Cor 1:9 · 2Cor 1:23 · 2Cor 2:17 · 2Cor 11:31 · +3 more

19For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us—by me, Silvanus, and Timothy—was not “Yes and no,” but in him is “Yes.”Cross-references: Ex 3:14 · Ps 2:7 · Matt 3:17 · Matt 16:16 · Matt 17:5 · Matt 24:35 · +30 more

20For however many are the promises of God, in him is the “Yes.” Therefore also through him is the “Amen”, to the glory of God through us.Cross-references: Gen 3:15 · Gen 22:18 · Gen 49:10 · Ps 72:17 · Ps 102:16 · Isa 7:14 · +35 more

21Now he who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God,Cross-references: Ps 37:23 · Ps 45:7 · Ps 87:5 · Ps 89:4 · Isa 9:7 · Isa 49:8 · +18 more

22who also sealed us and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.Cross-references: John 6:27 · Rom 4:11 · Rom 8:9 · Rom 8:14 · Rom 8:23 · 2Cor 5:5 · +6 more

23But I call God for a witness to my soul, that to spare you, I didn’t come to Corinth.Cross-references: Rom 1:9 · Rom 9:1 · 1Cor 4:21 · 1Cor 5:5 · 2Cor 1:18 · 2Cor 2:1 · +11 more

24We don’t control your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.Cross-references: Matt 23:8 · Matt 24:49 · Rom 1:12 · Rom 5:2 · Rom 11:20 · 1Cor 3:5 · +9 more