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2 Corinthians 1

4 He declareth the great profit that cometh to the faithful by their afflictions. 15 17 And because they should not impute to lightness, that he differed his coming contrary to his promise, he proveth his constancy, both by the sincerity of his preaching, and also by the immutable truth of the Gospel. 21 Which truth is grounded on Christ, and sealed in our hearts by the holie Ghost.
1.Paul an Apostle of JESUS CHRIST by the will of God, and our brother Timotheus, to the Church of God, which is at Corinthus with all the Saints, which are in all aAchaia:
2.Grace be with you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
3.*bBlessed be God even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort,
4.Which comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any affliction by the comfort wherewith we our selves are comforted of God.
5.For as the csufferings of Christ abunde in us, so our consolation abundeth through Christ.
6.And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and dsalvation, which eis wrought in the enduring of the same sufferings, which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.
7.And our hope is steadfast concerning you, in as much as we know that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.
8.For brethren, we would not have you ignorant of our affliction, which came unto us in Asia, how we were pressed fout of measure passing strength, so that we all together doubted, even of life.
9.Yea, we greceived the sentence of death in our selves, because we should not trust in our selves, but in God, which raiseth the dead.
10.Who delivered us from so hgreat a death, and doeth deliver us: in whom we trust, that yet here after he will deliver us,
11.*So that ye labour together in prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us for many, thanks may be given by many persons for us.
12.iFor our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly pureness, and not in fleshly wisdom, kbut by the grace of God we have had our conversation in the world, and most of all to you wards.
13.For we lwrite none other things unto you, then that ye have read or else that ye acknowledge, and I trust ye shall acknowledge unto the end.
14.Even as ye have acknowledged us partly, that we are your mrejoicing, even as ye are nours, in the oday of our Lord Jesus.
15.And in this confidence was I minded first to come unto you, that ye might have had a double grace,
16.And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto you, and to be led forth toward Judea of you.
17.When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or mind I those things which I mind, paccording to the flesh, that with me should be, qYea, yea, and Nay, nay?
18.Yea, rGod is faithful, that our word toward you was not Yea, and Nay.
19.For the Son of God Jesus Christ who was preached among you by us, that is by me, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, was not Yea, and Nay: but in him it was sYea.
20.For all the promises of God in him are tYea, and are in him Amen, unto the glory of God through us.
21.And it is God which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us.
22.Who hath also sealed us, and hath given the *earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
23.Now, I call God for a record unto my soul, that to spare you, I come not as yet unto Corinthus.
24.Not that we uhave dominion over your faith, but we are helpers of your joy: for by xfaith ye stand.

Notes

1-a.
Meaning the country whereof Corinthus was the chief city.
3-*.
Ephe. 1.3, 1 Pet. 1.3.
3-b.
Or, praise and glory be given.
5-c.
Which I suffer for Christ, or which Christ suffereth in me, Rom. 7.5 and 8.3, Col. 1.24.
6-d.
For seeing him endure so much, they had occasion to be confirmed in the Gospel.
6-e.
As God only works all things in us: so doeth he also our salvation by his free mercy, and by such means as he hath here left in this life for us to be exercised in.
8-f.
Hereby he shows his own infirmity that it might appear how wonder- fully God’s graces wrought in him.
9-g.
I was utterly resolved in my self to die.
10-h.
So many dangers of death.
11-*.
Rom. 15.30.
12-i.
He rendreth a reason why they ought to pray unto God for his recovery.
12-k.
Using that wisdom which God gave me from heaven.
13-l.
Ye know partly my constancy both by my dwelling with you, and also my writing unto you: and I trust ye shall know me to be the same to the very end.
14-m.
In that we have taught you the Gospel so sincerely.
14-n.
Because we have won you to Christ.
14-o.
Which shall abolish all worldly glory.
17-p.
Which is rashly to promise and not to perform.
17-q.
Now to affirm one thing, and then to deny it, which is a sign of inconstancy.
18-r.
He takes God to witness that he preaches the truth.
19-s.
He preached nothing unto them but only Jesus Christ who is the most constant and infallible truth of the Father.
20-t.
They are made, performed and we are partakers only by him, who is our Amen, in that he hath fulfilled them for us.
22-*.
Eph. 4.30.
24-u.
In that I say I came not because I would spare you, I mean not that I have authority to alter true religion, or to bind your consciences: but that I am God’s minister to confirm and comfort you.
24-x.
And faith is not in subjection to man.