2 Corinthians 1

Greeting

1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by God’s will, # 1:1 1Co 1:1; Eph 1:1; Col 1:1; 2Tm 1:1 and Timothy # 1:1 1Th 3:2; 1Tm 1:2 our # 1:1 Lit the brother:

To the church of God at Corinth, # 1:1 1Co 1:2 with all the saints who are throughout Achaia. # 1:1 Ac 18:12; Php 1:1

2Grace to you and peace # 1:2 Lk 12:51; Rm 1:7; 2Tm 1:2; 3Jn 14 from God our Father # 1:2 Mt 5:16; 11:27; Lk 11:13; Jn 8:42; Eph 5:20 and the Lord Jesus Christ.

The God of Comfort

3Blessed be # 1:3 Mk 14:61 the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies # 1:3 Heb 10:28 and the God of all comfort. # 1:3 Lk 2:25 4He comforts us in all our affliction, # 1:4 Or trouble, or tribulation, or trials, or oppression so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction, through the comfort we ourselves receive from God. 5For just as the sufferings # 1:5 Gl 5:24; Php 3:10 of Christ # 1:5 Rm 8:17; 2Co 4:10; Gl 6:17; Php 3:10; Col 1:24 overflow to us, so also through Christ our comfort overflows. # 1:5 Php 1:29 6If we are afflicted, # 1:6 Heb 11:37 it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings that we suffer. # 1:6 Php 1:29 7And our hope # 1:7 1Th 1:3 for you is firm, because we know that as you share # 1:7 Phm 17 in the sufferings, so you will also share in the comfort.

8We don’t want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, of our affliction that took place in Asia. # 1:8 Ac 6:9 We were completely overwhelmed — beyond our strength # 1:8 Ac 8:10; 1Co 15:24; Eph 1:21; 1Pt 3:22 — so that we even despaired # 1:8 2Co 4:8 of life itself. 9Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death, so that we would not trust in ourselves but in God # 1:9 Ps 25:2; 26:1; Jr 17:5–7; Lk 18:9 who raises # 1:9 Mk 9:27; Jn 2:19 the dead. 10He has delivered # 1:10 Mt 27:43 us from such a terrible death, # 1:10 Mt 10:21; Jn 8:51; Php 3:10 and he will deliver us. We have put our hope in him that he will deliver us again 11while you join in helping us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our # 1:11 Other mss read your behalf for the gift that came to us through the prayers of many.

A Clear Conscience

12Indeed, this is our boast: The testimony # 1:12 1Tm 2:6 of our conscience # 1:12 Heb 13:18 is that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, with godly sincerity and purity, not by human wisdom # 1:12 Pr 3:19; 1Co 1:21 but by God’s grace. # 1:12 Ac 23:1; 2Co 4:2; 5:12; 1Th 2:10 13For we are writing nothing to you other than what you can read and also understand. I hope you will understand completely — 14just as you have partially understood us — that we are your reason for pride, # 1:14 Rm 2:17; Gl 6:4 just as you also are ours # 1:14 2Co 9:3; Php 2:16; 4:1; 1Th 2:19–20 in the day of our # 1:14 Other mss omit our Lord Jesus. # 1:14 Php 1:6

A Visit Postponed

15Because of this confidence, I planned to come to you first, # 1:15 Ac 18:1–18; 1Co 4:19 so that you could have a second benefit, # 1:15 Other mss read a second joy 16and to visit you on my way to Macedonia, # 1:16 Ac 16:9 and then come to you again from Macedonia and be helped by you # 1:16 Ac 20:38 on my journey # 1:16 Ac 19:21; 1Co 16:5–7 to Judea. # 1:16 Lk 1:5 17Now when I planned this, was I of two minds? Or what I plan, do I plan in a purely human # 1:17 Or a worldly, or a fleshly, or a selfish,# 1:17 Php 3:3; Col 3:22 way so that I say “Yes, yes” and “No, no” at the same time? 18As God is faithful, # 1:18 Nm 23:19 our message to you is not “Yes and no.” 19For the Son of God, # 1:19 Jn 5:19; Heb 1:2 Jesus Christ, whom we proclaimed among you — Silvanus, # 1:19 Or Silas; Ac 15:22–32; 16:19–40; 17:1–16,# 1:19 1Th 1:1 Timothy, and I — did not become “Yes and no.” On the contrary, in him it is always “Yes.” # 1:19 Heb 13:8 20For every one of God’s promises # 1:20 Gn 12:7 is “Yes” in him. Therefore, through him we also say “Amen” # 1:20 Ps 72:19; Rv 22:21 to the glory of God. # 1:20 Mk 10:37; Lk 9:32; Jn 17:24; 2Co 3:18; 2Pt 3:18 21Now it is God who strengthens us together with you in Christ, and who has anointed # 1:21 Lk 4:18; 1Jn 2:20 us. 22He has also put his seal on us and given us the Spirit in our hearts # 1:22 Jms 4:5 as a down payment. # 1:22 Eph 1:14

23I call on God as a witness, # 1:23 Rm 1:9; Php 1:8; Heb 12:1 on my life, that it was to spare you that I did not come to Corinth. # 1:23 1Co 4:21; 2Co 13:2,10 24I do not mean that we lord it over your faith, but we are workers with you for your joy, because you stand firm in your # 1:24 Pr 24:16 faith.

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2 Corinthians 1

1From Sha'ul, a Shliach of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua birtzon Hashem (by the will of G-d), and Timotiyos, the Ach b'Moshiach; To the Kehillah (Congregation) of Hashem existing in Corinth, with all the Kedoshim throughout Achaia.

2Chen v'Chesed Hashem to you and shalom from Elohim Avinu and Adoneinu Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua.

3Baruch hu Hashem Elohim Avi of Adoneinu Yehoshua HaMoshiach, Avi HaRachamim vaElohei kol nechamah (comfort),#1:3 Ps 103:13; Isa 66:13 4The one giving us chizzuk (strengthening) with respect to all our tzoros so as to enable us to give chizzuk to the ones experiencing tzoros, and that through the nechamah (comfort) by which we ourselves are comforted#1:4 1C 1:3 by Hashem.#1:4 Isa 49:13; 51:12; 66:13 5This is so because as the Chevlei Moshiach (birth pangs of Moshiach) abound to us, so through Moshiach abounds also our nechamah.#1:5 1C 1:3; Isa 51:12; Ps 34:19; 94:19 6Now if we are experiencing tzoros, it is for your chizzuk (strengthening) and Yeshu'at Eloheinu; or if we are being given nechamah (comfort), it is for your nechamah that is producing in you the chozek (strength) of savlanut (patience) for the endurance of the tzoros which we also suffer.#1:6 1Th 3:3 7And our tikvah (hope) for you is well-founded, for we have da'as that as you have deveykus (cleaving to) the Chevlei Moshiach, so also you will have deveykus to the nechamah.

8For we do not want you to lack da'as, Achim b'Moshiach, as to the tzoros and tribulation that came upon us in Asia,#1:8 Ac 19:23; 1C 15:32 that utterly beyond our strength we were burdened, causing us to come to a feeling of ye'ush (despair) even of being able to stay alive. 9But we ourselves have had the gezar din (verdict) of mishpat mavet (a death sentence) in ourselves so that we should not have emunah (faith) in ourselves but in Hashem, Mechayyei Mesim (Who Revivest the Dead).#1:9 Shemoneh Esreh, Jer 17:5,7 10The same G-d out of so great a Mavet delivered us and will continue to deliver us. We have set tikvateinu (our hope) that he will yet deliver us,#1:10 2Ti 4:18 11As you also labor together for us by techinnah (supplication), so that the “Modeh Ani” for us will be said by the many#1:11 Isa 53:11-12 for the matanah (gift) granted us through the tefillos of the many.

12For our glorying is in this: the edut (testimony) of our matzpun (conscience)#1:12 MJ 13:18 is that without remiyah (guile, fraud, deceit) and with lev tahor#1:12 Ps 51:12 (pure heart ), with the sincerity of Hashem#1:12 2C 2:17 and not in the “chochmah” of the basar#1:12 1C 1:17 but in the Chen v'Chesed of Hashem, we conducted ourselves in the Olam Hazeh, and more especially toward you. 13For we write nothing so shver (complex) to you that you cannot read and have binah (understanding), and I have tikvah that you will have da'as shlemah until HaKetz, 14As you have already had da'as of us in part, as also we are your kavod,#1:14 2C 5:12 even as also you are ours in the Yom Hashem of Adoneinu Yehoshua.#1:14 Pp 2:16

15And with this bitachon (confidence) I planned previously to come to you, that a second benefit you might have. 16It was my cheshbon (plan) to visit you by way of Macedonia and again from Macedonia to come to you, and by you to be sent on to Yehudah (Judea).#1:16 Ac 19:21; 1C 16:5,6 17This was my matarah (aim, goal); surely then I did not act with vacillation? Or when I make plans,#1:17 2C 5:16 do I have a cheshbon according to the basar, ready with “Ken, Ken!” and then, “Lo! Lo!” 18Al emunat Hashem (in the faithfulness of G-d), our dvar to you has not been “Ken” and “Lo.” 19For the Zun fun der Oybershter, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua, the One having been proclaimed among you by us, by Silvanus (Sila) and Timotiyos and me,#1:19 Ac 18:5 was not a “Ken and Lo”; but in Him it has always been “Ken.” 20For in Moshiach every one of Hashemʼs havtachot (promises) is a “Ken.” For this reason it is b'Shem Moshiach that we say the “Omein” to the kavod of Hashem.#1:20 1C 14:16; Rv 3:14 21But it is Hashem who establishes us with you in Moshiach and has given us the mishchah#1:21 1Y 2:27 (anointing), 22Having put his chotam#1:22 seal of ownership Gn 38:18; Ezek 9:4; Ep 1:13; 4:30; Rv 7:4 on us and having given the eravon (pledge) of the Ruach Hakodesh in our levavot#1:22 Ro 8:16; 2C 5:5; Ep 1:14 (hearts).#1:22 Gn 38:18; Ezek 9:4; Hag 2:23

23Now, I call upon Hashem as eidus (witness) against my nefesh, my neshamah (soul), that it was to spare you that I did not come again to Corinth.#1:23 Ro 1:9; 2C 11:31; Pp 1:8; 1Th 2:5,10 24Not that we play the gontser macher to domineer over your emunah (faith),#1:24 1K 5:3 but we are fellow po'alim for your simcha, for by emunah you stand.

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