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Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God in Corinth, together with all his holy people throughout Achaia: SCode Rom 1:1 1Cor 1:1 Gal 1:1 Eph 1:1 Phil 1:1 Col 1:1~2 1Th 3:2 1Tim 1:1 2Tim 1:1 Tit 1:1
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Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. SCode Rom 1:7
Praise to the God of All Comfort
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Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, SCode Rom 15:5~6 Eph 1:3 1Pet 1:3
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who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. SCode Isa 51:12 Isa 66:13
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For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ. SCode 2Cor 4:10 Phil 3:10 Col 1:24
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If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. SCode 2Cor 12:15 Eph 3:13 2Tim 2:10
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And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort. SCode
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We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about the troubles we experienced in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired of life itself. SCode Act 19:23 1Cor 15:32
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Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. SCode Psa 26:1 Psa 25:2 Psa 2:12 Lk 18:9 2Cor 4:14~15
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He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us again. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us, SCode 1Tim 4:10
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as you help us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the gracious favor granted us in answer to the prayers of many. SCode Act 12:5 Rom 15:30~31 2Cor 9:11~12 2Cor 4:15 Phil 1:19 Phm 1:22
Paul’s Change of Plans
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Now this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in our relations with you, with integrity and godly sincerity. We have done so, relying not on worldly wisdom but on God’s grace. SCode Act 23:1 1Cor 2:4 1Cor 2:13 2Cor 4:2 2Cor 2:17 1Th 2:10
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For we do not write you anything you cannot read or understand. And I hope that,
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as you have understood us in part, you will come to understand fully that you can boast of us just as we will boast of you in the day of the Lord Jesus. SCode 1Cor 1:8~9 1Cor 9:15 2Cor 9:3 2Cor 2:5 2Cor 5:12 Phil 4:1 Phil 2:16 1Th 2:19~20
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Because I was confident of this, I wanted to visit you first so that you might benefit twice. SCode Act 18:1~18 Rom 1:11 1Cor 4:19
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I wanted to visit you on my way to Macedonia and to come back to you from Macedonia, and then to have you send me on my way to Judea. SCode Act 19:21 1Cor 16:5~7
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Was I fickle when I intended to do this? Or do I make my plans in a worldly manner so that in the same breath I say both "Yes, yes" and "No, no"? SCode 2Cor 10:2~3
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But as surely as God is faithful, our message to you is not "Yes" and "No." SCode 2Cor 2:17
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For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us - by me and Silas and Timothy - was not "Yes" and "No," but in him it has always been "Yes." SCode Mt 14:33 Act 15:22 Heb 13:8
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For no matter how many promises God has made, they are "Yes" in Christ. And so through him the "Amen" is spoken by us to the glory of God. SCode Rom 15:8 1Cor 14:16 Heb 10:23 Rev 3:14
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Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us, SCode 1Jn 2:20 1Jn 2:27
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set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come. SCode Rom 8:16~17 2Cor 5:5 Eph 1:13~14 Eph 4:30
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I call God as my witness - and I stake my life on it - that it was in order to spare you that I did not return to Corinth. SCode Rom 1:9 1Cor 4:21 2Cor 2:1 2Cor 2:3 Gal 1:20
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Not that we lord it over your faith, but we work with you for your joy, because it is by faith you stand firm. SCode Mt 23:8~10 Rom 11:20 1Cor 15:1 2Cor 4:5 1Pet 5:3
NIV Footnotes
  1. 1:8 The Greek word for brothers and sisters (adelphoi) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God’s family; also in 8:1; 13:11.
  2. 1:12 Many manuscripts holiness
  3. 1:19 Greek Silvanus, a variant of Silas
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