12我們感到自豪的是：我們本著上帝所賜的聖潔和誠實為人處世，倚靠祂的恩典，不倚靠人的聰明才智，對待你們更是這樣。這一點，我們的良心可以作證。13我們不寫任何你們讀不懂、不明白的內容。你們現在對我們有幾分認識，但我盼望你們最終完全認識到：當主耶穌再來的日子，你們將以我們為榮，正如我們將以你們為榮一樣。15我有這樣的把握，所以早就計劃去你們那裡，使你們有兩次蒙福的機會。16我打算從你們那裡去馬其頓，再從馬其頓回到你們那裡，然後你們為我送行前往猶太。17我定了這計劃，難道會反覆無常嗎？難道我是意氣用事，出爾反爾嗎？18我在信實的上帝面前保證：我們對你們說的話絕不會忽是忽非！19我和西拉、提摩太在你們當中所傳揚的那位上帝的兒子耶穌基督絕不會忽是忽非，在祂只有「是」。20因為上帝的一切應許在基督裡都是確實的，所以我們也是藉著基督說「阿們*」，將榮耀歸於上帝。21是上帝使我們和你們一同在基督裡信心堅固。祂差遣*了我們，22在我們身上蓋了祂自己的印記，並讓聖靈住在我們心中作擔保。23我求上帝為我作證：我沒有去哥林多，是為了寬容你們。24我們並不是要操縱你們的信仰，而是要幫助你們，使你們喜樂，因為你們在信仰上已經站穩了。
English Standard Version
Greeting
1Paul, 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 who are in the whole of Achaia:2Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
God of All Comfort
3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,4who 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.5For as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.*6If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer.7Our hope for you is unshaken, for we know that as you share in our sufferings, you will also share in our comfort.8For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers,* of the affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself.9Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead.10He delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again.11You also must help us by prayer, so that many will give thanks on our behalf for the blessing granted us through the prayers of many.
Paul’s Change of Plans
12For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity* and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.13For we are not writing to you anything other than what you read and understand and I hope you will fully understand—14just as you did partially understand us—that on the day of our Lord Jesus you will boast of us as we will boast of you.15Because I was sure of this, I wanted to come to you first, so that you might have a second experience of grace.16I wanted to visit you on my way to Macedonia, and to come back to you from Macedonia and have you send me on my way to Judea.17Was I vacillating when I wanted to do this? Do I make my plans according to the flesh, ready to say “Yes, yes” and “No, no” at the same time?18As surely as God is faithful, our word to you has not been Yes and No.19For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we proclaimed among you, Silvanus and Timothy and I, was not Yes and No, but in him it is always Yes.20For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is through him that we utter our Amen to God for his glory.21And it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us,22and who has also put his seal on us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.*23But I call God to witness against me—it was to spare you that I refrained from coming again to Corinth.24Not that we lord it over your faith, but we work with you for your joy, for you stand firm in your faith.
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