Paul, an apostle of Christ 1 Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia: 2Ti 1:1Eph 1:1Php 1:1Tit 1:11Co 16:101Co 6:111Th 1:7-81Ti 1:1 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Rom 1:7Eph 6:23Php 1:2Phm 1:31Ch 12:181Co 1:31Th 1:12Th 1:2
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, Eph 1:31Pe 1:3Rom 15:5-6Mic 7:18Psa 86:5Dan 9:9Eph 1:17Psa 86:15 who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 1Th 5:112Th 2:16-17Isa 51:122Co 7:6-7Isa 40:1Psa 32:7Jhn 14:18Heb 12:12 For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ. Col 1:24Php 3:102Th 2:16-17Php 1:202Co 4:10-11Php 2:11Co 4:10-132Co 11:23-30 But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer. 2Ti 2:102Co 4:15-182Co 1:4Eph 3:13Php 1:19Rom 8:282Co 5:52Co 12:15 Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so you are also of the comfort. Rom 8:17-182Th 1:4-7Jas 1:121Th 1:3-4Jas 1:2-42Ti 2:121Co 10:132Co 1:14
For we don’t desire to have you uninformed, brothers, 2 concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia: that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life. 2Co 4:7-121Co 15:321Co 4:81Co 16:9Act 19:23-351Sa 27:11Sa 20:3 Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead, 2Co 3:52Co 4:7Heb 11:192Co 12:7-10Rom 4:17-25Job 40:14Psa 44:5-7Ezk 37:1-14 who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver, on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us, 1Ti 4:102Pe 2:9Psa 34:191Sa 17:372Ti 4:17Rom 15:31Act 26:211Sa 7:12 you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift given to us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on your 3 behalf. Php 1:192Co 4:15Act 12:5Col 4:32Th 3:1Heb 13:18Phm 1:22Rom 15:30-32
For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you. 1Co 2:132Co 2:17Jas 3:13-181Th 2:101Co 15:101Pe 3:212Co 12:15-192Co 4:2 For we write no other things to you than what you read or even acknowledge, and I hope you will acknowledge to the end— 2Co 4:2Phm 1:62Co 13:62Co 5:11 as also you acknowledged us in part—that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus. 1Th 2:19-20Php 2:161Co 1:81Th 3:13Php 1:10Php 4:11Th 5:23Php 1:6
In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit, Rom 1:11Rom 15:291Co 4:191Co 11:342Co 6:1Php 1:25-26 and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be sent forward by you on my journey to Judea. 1Co 16:5-7Act 19:21-22Act 21:5 When I therefore planned this, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I plan, do I plan according to the flesh, that with me there should be the “Yes, yes” and the “No, no?” Mat 5:37Jas 5:122Co 10:2-32Co 1:18-20Jhn 8:15Jer 23:322Co 1:12Jdg 9:4 But as God is faithful, our word toward you was not “Yes and no.” 1Co 1:9Rev 3:7Jhn 7:28Rev 3:142Co 1:232Co 11:312Co 2:17Jhn 8:26 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us—by me, Silvanus, and Timothy—was not “Yes and no,” but in him is “Yes.” Heb 13:82Jn 1:9Rev 1:17Rev 1:81Jn 5:20Rev 2:18Act 18:51Jn 1:3 For however many are the promises of God, in him is the “Yes.” Therefore also through him is the “Amen”, to the glory of God through us. 1Jn 2:24-25Gal 3:22Rev 7:12Heb 13:8Eph 1:6Eph 1:12-14Rev 3:14Rom 11:36
Now he who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God, 1Jn 2:271Jn 2:201Pe 5:10Rom 8:9Isa 61:12Th 3:3Isa 9:72Co 5:5 who also sealed us and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts. Eph 4:302Co 5:5Eph 1:13-14Jhn 6:27Rom 8:14-16Rev 9:4Rom 8:23Rom 8:9
But I call God for a witness to my soul, that to spare you, I didn’t come to Corinth. Gal 1:201Co 4:212Co 13:102Co 13:2Rom 1:92Co 10:6-112Co 12:20Php 1:8 We don’t control your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith. 1Pe 5:31Co 15:12Ti 2:24-262Co 4:5Php 1:25-26Rom 5:2Mat 23:8-10Mat 24:49