2 Corinthians 1 (NET)

2 Corinthians 1:1¹From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the church of God that is in Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Tim 1:1Eph 1:1Phil 1:1Titus 1:11 Cor 16:101 Cor 6:111 Thess 1:7-81 Tim 1:1Acts 16:1Col 1:1-2

2 Corinthians 1:2²Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 1:7Eph 6:23Phil 1:2Phlm 1:31 Chr 12:181 Cor 1:31 Thess 1:12 Thess 1:2Col 1:22 Sam 15:20

2 Corinthians 1:3³Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 1:31 Pet 1:3Rom 15:5-6Mic 7:18Ps 86:5Dan 9:9Eph 1:17Ps 86:15Phil 2:11John 5:22-23

2 Corinthians 1:4⁴who comforts us in all our troubles so that we may be able to comfort those experiencing any trouble with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Thess 5:112 Thess 2:16-17Isa 51:122 Cor 7:6-7Isa 40:1Ps 32:7John 14:18Heb 12:12John 14:16Ps 34:2-6

2 Corinthians 1:5⁵For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow toward us, so also our comfort through Christ overflows to you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Col 1:24Phil 3:102 Thess 2:16-17Phil 1:202 Cor 4:10-11Phil 2:11 Cor 4:10-132 Cor 11:23-30Acts 9:4Luke 2:25

2 Corinthians 1:6⁶But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort that you experience in your patient endurance of the same sufferings that we also suffer.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Tim 2:102 Cor 4:15-182 Cor 1:4Eph 3:13Phil 1:19Rom 8:282 Cor 5:52 Cor 12:15Heb 12:10-111 Cor 3:21-23

2 Corinthians 1:7⁷And our hope for you is steadfast because we know that as you share in our sufferings, so also you will share in our comfort.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 8:17-182 Thess 1:4-7Jas 1:121 Thess 1:3-4Jas 1:2-42 Tim 2:121 Cor 10:132 Cor 1:142 Cor 12:202 Cor 7:9

2 Corinthians 1:8⁸For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, regarding the affliction that happened to us in the province of Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of living.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 4:7-121 Cor 15:321 Cor 4:81 Cor 16:9Acts 19:23-351 Sam 27:11 Sam 20:3

2 Corinthians 1:9⁹Indeed we felt as if the sentence of death had been passed against us, so that we would not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 3:52 Cor 4:7Heb 11:192 Cor 12:7-10Rom 4:17-25Job 40:14Ps 44:5-7Ezek 37:1-14Jer 9:23-24Luke 18:9

2 Corinthians 1:10¹⁰He delivered us from so great a risk of death, and he will deliver us. We have set our hope on him that he will deliver us yet again,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Tim 4:102 Pet 2:9Ps 34:191 Sam 17:372 Tim 4:17Rom 15:31Acts 26:211 Sam 7:12Isa 46:3Job 5:17-22

2 Corinthians 1:11¹¹as you also join in helping us by prayer, so that many people may give thanks to God on our behalf for the gracious gift given to us through the help of many.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Phil 1:192 Cor 4:15Acts 12:5Col 4:32 Thess 3:1Heb 13:18Phlm 1:22Rom 15:30-32Eph 6:18-19Jas 5:16-18

2 Corinthians 1:12¹²For our reason for confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that with pure motives and sincerity which are from God —not by human wisdom but by the grace of God—we conducted ourselves in the world, and all the more toward you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 2:132 Cor 2:17Jas 3:13-181 Thess 2:101 Cor 15:101 Pet 3:212 Cor 12:15-192 Cor 4:22 Cor 8:8Acts 23:1

2 Corinthians 1:13¹³For we do not write you anything other than what you can read and also understand. But I hope that you will understand completelyCopy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 4:2Phlm 1:62 Cor 13:62 Cor 5:11

2 Corinthians 1:14¹⁴just as also you have partly understood us, that we are your source of pride just as you also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Thess 2:19-20Phil 2:161 Cor 1:81 Thess 3:13Phil 1:10Phil 4:11 Thess 5:23Phil 1:62 Cor 2:52 Cor 5:12

2 Corinthians 1:15¹⁵And with this confidence I intended to come to you first so that you would get a second opportunity to see us,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 1:11Rom 15:291 Cor 4:191 Cor 11:342 Cor 6:1Phil 1:25-26

2 Corinthians 1:16¹⁶and through your help to go on into Macedonia and then from Macedonia to come back to you and be helped on our way into Judea by you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 16:5-7Acts 19:21-22Acts 21:5

2 Corinthians 1:17¹⁷Therefore when I was planning to do this, I did not do so without thinking about what I was doing, did I? Or do I make my plans according to mere human standards so that I would be saying both “Yes, yes” and “No, no” at the same time?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 5:37Jas 5:122 Cor 10:2-32 Cor 1:18-20John 8:15Jer 23:322 Cor 1:12Judg 9:4Zeph 3:41 Thess 2:18

2 Corinthians 1:18¹⁸But as God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes” and “No.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 1:9Rev 3:7John 7:28Rev 3:142 Cor 1:232 Cor 11:312 Cor 2:17John 8:261 John 5:20

2 Corinthians 1:19¹⁹For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, the one who was proclaimed among you by us—by me and Silvanus and Timothy—was not “Yes” and “No,” but it has always been “Yes” in him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 13:82 John 1:9Rev 1:17Rev 1:81 John 5:20Rev 2:18Acts 18:51 John 1:31 John 5:9-132 Pet 1:17

2 Corinthians 1:20²⁰For every one of God’s promises are “Yes” in him; therefore also through him the “Amen” is spoken, to the glory we give to God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 2:24-25Gal 3:22Rev 7:12Heb 13:8Eph 1:6Eph 1:12-14Rev 3:14Rom 11:36Rom 6:23Eph 2:7

2 Corinthians 1:21²¹But it is God who establishes us together with you in Christ and who anointed us,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 2:271 John 2:201 Pet 5:10Rom 8:9Isa 61:12 Thess 3:3Isa 9:72 Cor 5:52 Thess 2:8Acts 10:38

2 Corinthians 1:22²²who also sealed us and gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a down payment.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 4:302 Cor 5:5Eph 1:13-14John 6:27Rev 9:4Rom 8:14-16Rom 8:23Rom 8:92 Tim 2:19Rev 7:3

2 Corinthians 1:23²³Now I appeal to God as my witness, that to spare you I did not come again to Corinth.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 1:201 Cor 4:212 Cor 13:102 Cor 13:2Rom 1:92 Cor 10:6-112 Cor 12:20Phil 1:81 Cor 5:51 Thess 2:5

2 Corinthians 1:24²⁴I do not mean that we rule over your faith, but we are workers with you for your joy, because by faith you stand firm.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 5:31 Cor 15:12 Tim 2:24-262 Cor 4:5Phil 1:25-26Rom 5:2Matt 23:8-10Matt 24:491 Cor 3:52 Cor 2:1-3