Produced by Martin Ward Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, 2 Corinthians Third Edition 1913 R. F. Weymouth Book 47 2 Corinthians 001:001 Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God-- and our brother Timothy: To the Church of God in Corinth, with all God's people throughout Greece. 001:002 May grace and peace be granted to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 001:003 Heartfelt thanks be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ-- the Father who is full of compassion and the God who gives all comfort. 001:004 He comforts us in our every affliction so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction by means of the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 001:005 For just as we have more than our share of suffering for the Christ, so also through the Christ we have more than our share of comfort. 001:006 But if, on the one hand, we are enduring affliction, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if, on the other hand, we are receiving comfort, it is for your comfort which is produced within you through your patient fortitude under the same sufferings as those which we also are enduring. 001:007 And our hope for you is stedfast; for we know that as you are partners with us in the sufferings, so you are also partners in the comfort. 001:008 For as for our troubles which came upon us in the province of Asia, we would have you know, brethren, that we were exceedingly weighed down, and felt overwhelmed, so that we renounced all hope even of life. 001:009 Nay, we had, as we still have, the sentence of death within our own selves, in order that our confidence may repose, not on ourselves, but on God who raised the dead to life. 001:010 He it is who rescued us from so imminent a death, and will do so again; and we have a firm hope in Him that He will also rescue us in all the future, 001:011 while you on your part lend us your aid in entreaty for us, so that from many lips thanksgivings may rise on our behalf for the boon granted to us at the intercession of many. 001:012 For the reason for our boasting is this--the testimony of our own conscience that it was in holiness and with pure motives before God, and in reliance not on worldly wisdom but on the gracious help of God, that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and above all in our relations with you. 001:013 For we are writing to you nothing different from what we have written before, or from what indeed you already recognize as truth and will, I trust, recognize as such to the very end; 001:014 just as some few of you have recognized us as your reason for boasting, even as you will be ours, on the day of Jesus our Lord.