2 CORINTHIANS 1
Subject:
The New Covenant Ministry and Its Ministers
I. Introduction
A. Greeting
1. Comforted to Comfort
Subject:
The New Covenant Ministry and Its Ministers
I. Introduction
A. Greeting
- Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy the brother, to the church of God which is in Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:
- Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
1. Comforted to Comfort
- Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassions and God of all comfort;
- Who comforts us in all our affliction that we may be able to comfort those who are in every affliction through the comforting with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
- For even as the sufferings of the Christ abound unto us, so through the Christ our comfort also abounds.
- But whether we are afflicted, it is for your comforting and salvation; or whether we are comforted, it is for your comforting, which operates in the endurance of the same sufferings which we also suffer.
- And our hope for you is firm, knowing that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so also you are of the comfort.
- For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, of our affliction which befell us in Asia, that we were excessively burdened, beyond our power, so that we despaired even of living.
- Indeed we ourselves had the response of death in ourselves, that we should not base our confidence on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead;
- Who has delivered us out of so great a death, and will deliver us; in whom we have hoped that He will also yet deliver us,
- If you also help in this by petition on our behalf, that for the gift to us through many, thanks may be given by many persons on our behalf.
