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2 Corinthians 1 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:1 - Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother. To the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Acha'ia:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:2 - Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:3 - Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 1:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:4 - who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:5 - For as we share abundantly in Christ's sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 1:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:6 - If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:7 - Our hope for you is unshaken; for we know that as you share in our sufferings, you will also share in our comfort.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:8 - For we do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, of the affliction we experienced in Asia; for we were so utterly, unbearably crushed that we despaired of life itself.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:9 - Why, we felt that we had received the sentence of death; but that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:10 - he delivered us from so deadly a peril, and he will deliver us; on him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:11 - You also must help us by prayer, so that many will give thanks on our behalf for the blessing granted us in answer to many prayers.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:12 - For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience that we have behaved in the world, and still more toward you, with holiness and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:13 - For we write you nothing but what you can read and understand; I hope you will understand fully,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:14 - as you have understood in part, that you can be proud of us as we can be of you, on the day of the Lord Jesus.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:15 - Because I was sure of this, I wanted to come to you first, so that you might have a double pleasure;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:16 - I wanted to visit you on my way to Macedo'nia, and to come back to you from Macedo'nia and have you send me on my way to Judea.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:17 - Was I vacillating when I wanted to do this? Do I make my plans like a worldly man, ready to say Yes and No at once?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:18 - As surely as God is faithful, our word to you has not been Yes and No.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:19 - For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we preached among you, Silva'nus and Timothy and I, was not Yes and No; but in him it is always Yes.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:20 - For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why we utter the Amen through him, to the glory of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 1:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:21 - But it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and has commissioned us;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:22 - he has put his seal upon us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:23 - But I call God to witness against me--it was to spare you that I refrained from coming to Corinth.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 1:24 - Not that we lord it over your faith; we work with you for your joy, for you stand firm in your faith.
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