2 Grace be to you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ
3 Blessed be God even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort 4 Who comforteth us in all our tribulation that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God 5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us ">so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ 6 And whether we be afflicted it is for your consolation and salvation which is effectual 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 of you is stedfast knowing that as ye are partakers of the sufferings ">so shall ye be also of the consolation
8 For we would not brethren have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia that we were pressed out of measure above strength insomuch that we despaired even of life 9 But __ we had the sentence of death in ourselves that we should not trust in ourselves __ but in God which raiseth the dead 10 Who delivered us from so great a death and doth deliver in whom we trust that he will __ yet deliver us 11 Ye also helping together by prayer for us that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf
12 For our rejoicing is this the testimony of our conscience that in simplicity and godly sincerity not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God we have had our conversation in the world and more abundantly to you-ward 13 For we write none other things unto you than __ what ye read or __ acknowledge and I trust __ ye shall acknowledge even to the end 14 As also ye have acknowledged us in part that we are your rejoicing even as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus
15 And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before that ye might have a second benefit 16 And to pass by you into Macedonia and to come again out of Macedonia unto you and of you to be brought on my way toward Judaea 17 When I therefore was thus minded did I use __ __ lightness or the things that I purpose do I purpose according to the flesh that with me there should be yea yea and nay nay 18 But as God is true. __ our word toward you was not yea and nay 19 For the Son of God Jesus Christ who was preached among you by us even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus was not yea and nay but in him was yea 20 For all the promises of God in him are yea and in him Amen unto the glory of God by us 21 Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ and hath anointed us is God 22 Who hath also sealed us and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts
23 Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth 24 Not for that we have dominion over your faith but are helpers of your joy for by faith ye stand
