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          DASV: 2 Corinthians 1    

1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy
our brother,
To the church of God that is at Corinth, with all the saints that
are throughout Achaia:
2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ.

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father
of mercies and God of all comfort,
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.
5 For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow into us, so too our
comfort overflows through Christ.
6 Even if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; if
we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when
you patiently endure the same sufferings that we also suffer.
7 Our hope for you is steadfast; for we know that as you share in our
sufferings, so too you will share in our comfort.
8 For we do not want you unaware, brothers, concerning the affliction
that happened to us in the province of Asia. For we were under
tremendous pressure, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even
of life.
9 In fact we felt like we had received the sentence of death against us,
so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead.
10 He delivered us out of so great a danger of death, and he will deliver
us. On him we have set our hope that yet again he will deliver us.
11 You also help us by your prayers, so that many will give thanks on
our behalf for the grace given to us through the prayers of so many.

12 For this is our boast, even the testimony of our conscience: we have
conducted ourselves in the world with holiness and godly sincerity,
not by human wisdom but by the grace of God, and especially
toward you.
13 For we do not write you anything other than what you can read and
understand, and I hope that you will understand it totally,
14 just as you partially understood us, that you will be proud of us
even as we are proud of you, in the day of the Lord Jesus.
15 Because of this confidence I wanted to come to you first, so that
you might have a double benefit,
16 by visiting you on the way to Macedonia, and then again coming
back from Macedonia to you, then from you to be sent on my journey
to Judea.
17 When I was planning what to do, was I vacillating? Or do I make my
plans according to human plans, so that I would say "Yes, yes" and
then turn around and say "No, no"?
18 But as God is faithful, our word to you has not been "Yes" and "No".
19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by
us, that is, by me, Silvanus and Timothy, was not "Yes" and "No",
but it has always been "Yes" in him.
20 For however many promises of God are in him, they are all "Yes."
Therefore through him we say "Amen", to the glory to God expressed
through us.
21 Now God established us with you in Christ, and anointed us;
22 he also sealed us, and gave us the Spirit as a down payment
in our hearts.
23 But I call God for a witness, that I did not come back to Corinth
to spare you.
24 Not that we have sovereign control over your faith; rather we
are co-workers for your joy, for by faith you stand firm.

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