This eBook was produced by David Widger
with the help of Derek Andrew's text from January 1992and the work of Bryan Taylor in November 2002.
47:001:001 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:
47:001:002 Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the
Lord Jesus Christ.
47:001:003 Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the
Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;
47:001:004 Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
47:001:005 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.
47:001:006 And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.
47:001:007 And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are
partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the
consolation.
47:001:008 For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble
which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure,
above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:
47:001:009 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should
not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:
47:001:010 Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in
whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;
47:001:011 Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.
47:001:012 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
47:001:013 For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read or acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end;
47:001:014 As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are our's in the day of the Lord Jesus.
47:001:015 And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit;
47:001:016 And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of
Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward
Judaea.
47:001:017 When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the
things that I purpose, do I purpose a