The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Corinthians 01
1 Paul, anapostle ofChrist† 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:
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 mercies
and God of all comfort,
4 who 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.
5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound
to us, even so our comfort also abounds
through Christ.
6 But if we are afflicted, itis 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.
7 Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing
that, since you are partakers of the
sufferings, so you are also of the comfort.
8 For 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.
9 Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence
of death within ourselves, that we
should not trust in ourselves, but in God
who raises the dead,
10 who 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,
11 you 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 be half.
12 For 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.
13 For we write no other things to you
than what you read or even acknowledge,
and I hope you will acknowledge to the
end—
14 as also you acknowledged us in part—
that we are your boasting, even as you also
are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.
15 In this confidence, I was determined
to come first to you, that you might have a
second benefit,
16 and 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.
17 When 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?”
18 But as God is faithful, our word toward
you was not “Yes and no.”
19 For 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.”
20 For 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.
21 Now he who establishes us with you in
Christ and anointed us is God,
22 who also sealed us and gave us the
down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.
23 But I call God for a witness to my soul,
that to spare you, I didn’t come to Corinth.
24 We don’t control your faith, but are
fellow workers with you for your joy. For
you stand firm in faith.