Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timothy the brother, to the congregation of God that is at Corinth, with all the sanctified who are in the whole of Achaia.

Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all encouragement,

who encourages us in all our affliction, in order for us to be able to encourage those in every affliction, through the encouragement of which we ourselves are encouraged by God.

Because, as the sufferings of the Christ abound to us, so also our encouragement abounds through the Christ.

But whether we are oppressed, it is for your encouragement and salvation, which works by endurance from the same sufferings that we also experience (and our hope for you is steadfast), or we are encouraged, it is for your encourage

knowing that, as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also of the encouragement.

For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about our affliction that happened to us in Asia, because we were extraordinarily weighed down, above strength, so as for us to despair even to be alive.

Who rescued us out of so great a death, and does rescue, in whom we have hoped that he will also still rescue.

And of you who help together by supplication for us (a gift for us from many persons, because of many), so that there may be gratitude about you.

For our pride is this (the testimony from our conscience), that we behave in the world in the simplicity and purity of God, not by fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, and especially toward you.

as also ye did acknowledge us in part, because we are your boast, just as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

But God is faithful, because our word toward you became not, yes and no.

For the Son of God, Jesus Christ who was proclaimed among you by us (by me and Silvanus and Timothy) became not, yes and no, but in him has become, yes.

For as many as be promises of God, in him is the Yes, and in him the Truly, for glory to God through us.

Now he who establishes us with you in Christ, and who anointed us, is God.

He also is who put a seal on us, and who gave the pledge of the Spirit in our hearts.

For if I make you sad, who then is he who makes me glad except he who is made sad by me?

And I wrote this same thing to you, so that when I came, I would not have sadness from whom I ought to rejoice, having been confident toward you all, because my joy is of all of you.

Sufficient to such a man is this punishment by the many,

And thanks is to God who always causes us to triumph in the Christ, and who makes manifest the aroma of the knowledge of him in every place, through us.

to the one an odor of death for death, and to the other an aroma of life for life. And who is adequate for these things?

For we are not as other men, huckstering the word of God, but as from purity. But we speak in Christ as from God in the sight of God.

Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Unless we need, as some men, commendatory letters to you or commendatory from you?

being seen that ye are a letter of Christ, administered by us, written not in ink, but in the Spirit of the living God, not in stony tablets, but in fleshly tablets, in hearts.

not that we are sufficient of ourselves to reckon anything as from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God,

who also made us qualified helpers of a new covenant, not of a document, but of a spirit, for the document kills but the spirit makes alive.

For if that which is abolished was through glory, much more that which remains is in glory.

Having therefore such a hope we use great boldness,

and are not as Moses. He put a veil over his face in order for the sons of Israel not to gaze on the end of the fading.

But their minds were hardened, for to this day the same veil remains at the reading of the old testament, not being uncovered, which thing is abolished in Christ.

But to this day when Moses is read, a veil lays upon their heart.

But whenever it turns to Lord, the veil is removed.