1Paul, an apostle of Messiah Yeshua through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia: 2Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Yeshua Messiah. 3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Yeshua Messiah, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort; 4who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 5For as the sufferings of Messiah abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Messiah. 6But whether we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or whether we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which works in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: 7and our hope for you is steadfast; knowing that, as you are partakers of the sufferings, so also are you of the comfort. 8For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning our affliction which befell us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so that we despaired even of life: 9indeed, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead: 10who delivered us out of so great a death, and will deliver: on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us; 11you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift bestowed upon us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on our behalf. 12For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you. 13For we write no other things to you, than what you read or even acknowledge, and I hope you will acknowledge to the end: 14as also you acknowledged us in part, that we are your glorying, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Yeshua. 15And in this confidence I intended to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit; 16and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and by you to be sent on my journey to Judæa. 17When I therefore intended this, did I show fickleness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the yes yes and the no no? 18But as God is faithful, our word toward you is not yes and no. 19For the Son of God, Yeshua Messiah, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timothy, was not yes and no, but in him is yes. 20For however many are the promises of God, in him is the yes: therefore also through him is the Amen, to the glory of God through us. 21Now he who establishes us with you in Messiah, and anointed us, is God; 22who also sealed us, and gave us the pledge of the Spirit in our hearts. 23But I call God for a witness upon my soul, that to spare you I refrained from coming to Corinth. 24Not that we have lordship over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for in faith you stand fast.