Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

1 Paul^[a], an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the church of God being in Corinth, together-with all the saints being in all Achaia^[b]: ² Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Blessed Be God For Comforting Us In All Our Sufferings

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassions^[c] and God of all comfort^[d], ⁴ the One comforting us concerning^[e] all our affliction so that we might be able to comfort the ones in every affliction with the comfort by which we ourselves are being comforted by God. ⁵ Because just as the sufferings of Christ are abounding in us, so our comfort also is abounding through Christ. ⁶ And if we are being afflicted— it is for the sake of your comfort and salvation. If we are being comforted— it is for the sake of your comfort, the comfort being at-work^[f] in your endurance of the same sufferings which we also are suffering. ⁷ And our hope for you is firm^[g], knowing that as you are sharers of the sufferings, so also of the comfort.

For We Despaired Even of Living, But God Delivered Us, And Will Deliver Us

⁸ For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers, with-reference-to our affliction having taken place in Asia^[h], that we were burdened^[i] extremely beyond our power, so that we despaired^[j] even of living. ⁹ But we had^[k] the sentence of death in ourselves in order that we should not be trusting in ourselves, but in God, the One raising the dead, ¹⁰ Who delivered us from so great a death^[l], and will deliver us; in Whom we have put our hope that He will indeed^[m] still deliver us— ¹¹ you also joining-in-helping in your prayer for us— in-order-that thanks might be given on our behalf by many faces^[n] as to the gift granted to us through many prayers.