1:1   Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God which meets at Corinth with all the saints who live throughout Achaia:

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

1:3   We bless the name of God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,

1:4   who comforts us in all our affliction so that can comfort those who have any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves receive comfort from God.

1:5   For just as the sufferings of Christ have become abundantly ours , so also we receive abundant comfort through Christ.

1:6  But if we suffer affliction, we have received it for your comfort and salvation; or if we receive comfort, we receive comfort for you, which proves effective in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer;

1:7   and our hope for you we acknowledge as firmly grounded, knowing that as you share our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.

1:8  For we do not want you to have ignorance, brethren, of our affliction which came to us in Asia, that we felt burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life;

1:9   indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead;

1:10   who 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,

1:11   your also joining in helping us through your prayers, so that many persons may give thanks on our behalf for the favor bestowed on us through the prayers of many.

1:12   For our proud confidence consists in 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.

1:13   For we write nothing else to you than what you read and understand, and I hope you will understand until the end;

1:14   just as you also partially did understand us, that we represent your reason to feel proud as you belong to us, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

1:15   In this confidence I intended at first to come to you, so that you might twice receive a blessing;

1:16   namely, to pass your way into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and by you to receive help on my journey to Judea.

1:17   Therefore, I had not vacillated when I intended to do this, did I? Or what I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, so that with me we will have yes, yes and no, no at the same time?

1:18   But as God demonstrates faithfulness, our word to you has not become yes and no.

1:19  For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who Silvanus, timothy, and I preached among you- did not consist of yes or no, but only yes in Him.

1:20  For as many promises God has made, in Him they become yes; therefore also through Him we recognize our Amen to the glory of God through us.

1:21   Now God establishes us and anointed us with you in Christ,

1:22   who have sealed us and gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a pledge.

1:23   But I call God as witness to my soul, that to spare you I did not come again to Corinth.

1:24   Not that we lord it over your faith, but work with you for your joy; for in your faith you stand firm.