Paul, sent of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and brother Timothy, to the church of God being in Corinth, with all holy ones being in the whole of Achaia:

Praised the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion, and God of all comfort:

Who comforting us upon all our pressure, that we may be able to comfort them in every pressure, by the comfort by which we ourselves are comforted by God.

And whether we are pressed, for your comfort and salvation, being well wrought in endurance of the same sufferings which we also suffer: whether we are comforted, for your comfort and salvation.

Who saved us from so great a death, and does save: in whom we have hoped also that he will yet save;

For we write no others to you, but what ye either know or also observe; and I hope that also even to the end ye will observe;

And I wrote this same to you lest, coming, I should have sadness from whom I ought to rejoice, trusting to you all, that mine is the joy of you all.

And if any have grieved, he has not grieved me, but by part; that I might not overload you all.

For, for this I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, if ye are obedient for all things.

Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and acknowledged by all men:

And we all, shown as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, with the face uncovered, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as from the Spirit of the Lord.

Knowing that he having raised the Lord Jesus will also raise us by Jesus, and present us with you.

For all things for you, that grace, having abounded by the many, might abound in thanksgiving to the glory of God.

For we must all be made manifest before the judgment seat of Christ; that each might receive the things for the body, for what he did, good or bad.

For the love of Christ holds us together; having judged this, that if one died for all, then all dead:

And he died for all, that the living no more live to themselves, but o him having died for them, and having risen.

So that if any in Christ, a new creation: old things have passed away; behold, all have become new.

And all things of God, having reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and given us the service of reconciliation;

As being grieved, and always rejoicing; as poor, and making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things.

And what agreement to the temple of God with images? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God said, That I will dwell in them, and will go round about; and will be their God, and they shall be a people to me.

Therefore come out from the midst of them, and be separated, says the Lord, and touch not the unclean; and I will receive you.

And I will be to you for a Father, and ye shall be to me for sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.

Therefore having these declarations, dearly let us cleanse ourselves from all defilements of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Much freedom of speech to me toward you; to me much boasting over you: I am filled with consolation, I superabound in joy in all your pressure.

Therefore have we been comforted in your comfort: and we rejoiced more abundantly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed from you all.

For if I have boasted anything to him of you, I was not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, so also was our boasting over Titus the truth.

And his bowels are more abundantly to you, remembering the obedience of you all, how with fear and tremor ye received him.

And not as we hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord, and to us by the will of God.

But as ye abound in everything, in faith, and in word, and in knowledge, and in all care, and in love from you to us, that also ye abound in this grace.

And in this I give an opinion: for this is profitable to you, which no only to do, but to will, ye began before from last year.

And now also complete ye the doing; that as a forwardness to will so also to complete, out of what is possessed.

And we sent with him the brother whose approbation in the good news through all the churches;

And God able for all grace to abound in you; having always all sufficiency in everything, ye abound in every good work:

Enriched in everything in all simplicity, which works through us gratitude to God.

By the proof of this service honouring God for the subjection of your assent to the good news of Christ, and to the simplicity of mutual participation to them and to all;

For if he coming proclaim another Jesus, which I proclaimed not, or ye receive another spirit, which ye received not, or other good news, which ye received not, ye have held up well.

And, if also ignorant in the word, but not in knowledge; but in every thing, we having been made manifest in all for you.

And being present with you, and having wanted, I acted not with negligence to any: (for the brethren having come from Macedonia filled up still more my want:) and I kept myself in every thing not burdensome to you, and I will keep.

And what I do, and I will do, that I shall not cut off the occasion of those wishing the occasion; that in what they boast, they be found as also we.