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Second Epistle to the Corinthians, Chapter 1

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Chapter 1 of 2 Corinthians—New World Translation (NWT)

  1. ¶ Paul, an apostle1 of Christ Jesus through God’s will, and Timothy2 [our] brother to the congregation of God that is in Corinth, together with all the holy ones3 who are in all of A·chaʹia:[a]4
  2. ¶ May YOU have undeserved kindness and peace from God our Father and [the] Lord Jesus Christ.5
  3. ¶ Blessed be the God and Father6 of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of tender mercies7 and the God of all comfort,8
  4. who comforts us in all our tribulation,9 that we may be able to comfort10 those in any sort of tribulation through the comfort with which we ourselves are being comforted by God.11
  5. For just as the sufferings for the Christ abound in us,12 so the comfort we get also abounds through the Christ.13
  6. Now whether we are in tribulation, it is for YOUR comfort and salvation;14 or whether we are being comforted, it is for YOUR comfort that operates to make YOU endure the same sufferings that we also suffer.15
  7. And so our hope for YOU is unwavering, knowing as we do that, just as YOU are sharers of the sufferings, in the same way YOU will also share the comfort.16
  8. ¶ For we do not wish YOU to be ignorant, brothers, about the tribulation that happened to us in the [district of] Asia,17 that we were under extreme pressure beyond our strength, so that we were very uncertain even of our lives.18
  9. In fact, we felt within ourselves that we had received the sentence of death. This was that we might have our trust,19 not in ourselves, but in the God who raises up the dead.20
  10. From such a great thing as death he did rescue us and will rescue us;21 and our hope is in him that he will also rescue us further.22
  11. YOU also can help along by YOUR supplication for us,23 in order that thanks24 may be given by many in our behalf for what is kindly given to us due to many [prayerful] faces.25
  12. ¶ For the thing we boast of is this, to which our conscience bears witness,26 that with holiness and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom27 but with God’s undeserved kindness, we have conducted ourselves in the world, but more especially toward YOU.
  13. For we are really not writing YOU things except those which YOU well know[b] or also recognize; and which I hope YOU will continue to recognize to the end,28
  14. just as YOU have also recognized, to an extent, that we are a cause for YOU to boast,29 just as YOU will also be for us in the day of our Lord Jesus.30
  15. ¶ So, with this confidence, I was intending before to come to YOU,31 that YOU might have a second32 [occasion for] joy,
  16. and after a stopover with YOU to go to Mac·e·doʹni·a,33 and to come back from Mac·e·doʹni·a to YOU34 and be conducted35 partway by YOU to Ju·deʹa.
  17. Well, when I had such an intention, I did not indulge in any lightness,36 did I? Or what things I purpose, do I purpose [them] according to the flesh,37 that with me there should be “Yes, Yes” and “No, No”?38
  18. But God can be relied upon that our speech addressed to YOU is not Yes and yet No.[c]
  19. For the Son of God,39 Christ Jesus, who was preached among YOU through us, that is, through me and Sil·vaʹnus and Timothy,40 did not become Yes and yet No, but Yes has become Yes in his case.41
  20. For no matter how many the promises42 of God are, they have become Yes by means of him.[d]43 Therefore also through him is the “Amen”44 [said] to God for glory through us.
  21. But he who guarantees that YOU and we belong to Christ and he who has anointed45 us is God.
  22. He has also put his seal46 upon us and has given us the token47 of what is to come,[e] that is, the spirit,48 in our hearts.
  23. ¶ Now I call upon God as a witness49 against my own soul that it is to spare YOU50 that I have not yet come to Corinth.
  24. Not that we are the masters51 over YOUR faith, but we are fellow workers52 for YOUR joy, for it is by [YOUR] faith53 that YOU are standing.54

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ The Roman province of southern Greece with its capital at Corinth.
  2. ^ Lit., “you are reading.”
  3. ^ Or, “Yes and No in one breath.” Lit., “Yes and No.” Gr., Nai kai Ou; Lat., EST et NON; J17,18(Heb.), Hen wa·Loʼʹ.
  4. ^ “By means of him.” Or, “in him.”
  5. ^ Or, “earnest money (down payment) of what is to come.” Gr., ar·ra·boʹna. See Eph 1:14 ftn, “Advance.”

REFERENCES

  1. ^ 1Co 1:1; 1Ti 1:1
  2. ^ Ac 16:1; Pp 2:20
  3. ^ Col 1:2
  4. ^ 1Th 1:8
  5. ^ Ro 1:7; Eph 1:3; Pp 1:2
  6. ^ Jn 20:17; Eph 4:6
  7. ^ Ex 34:6; Ps 86:5; Mc 7:18
  8. ^ Is 51:3; Ro 15:5
  9. ^ Ps 23:4; 2Co 7:6
  10. ^ Eph 6:22; 1Th 4:18
  11. ^ Ro 15:4; 2Th 2:16
  12. ^ 1Co 4:11; Col 1:24
  13. ^ Pp 2:1; 2Th 2:16
  14. ^ Eph 1:13
  15. ^ Ro 8:17; 1Pe 3:17; 4:16
  16. ^ Ro 8:18; 2Ti 2:12
  17. ^ Ac 19:22; 20:18
  18. ^ Ac 19:23; 1Co 15:32; 16:9; 2Co 11:23
  19. ^ Ps 33:20; Je 17:7; 2Co 12:10
  20. ^ Heb 11:19
  21. ^ Ps 34:19; 2Pe 2:9
  22. ^ Ps 34:7; 2Ti 4:18
  23. ^ Ro 15:30; Pp 1:19; Pm 22
  24. ^ 2Co 9:11
  25. ^ Ac 12:5
  26. ^ Ac 23:1
  27. ^ 1Co 2:4
  28. ^ 1Co 4:14
  29. ^ 2Co 5:12
  30. ^ Pp 2:16; 1Th 2:19
  31. ^ 1Co 4:19
  32. ^ Ac 20:2
  33. ^ 1Co 16:5
  34. ^ Ac 20:3
  35. ^ Ac 17:15; Ro 15:24; 1Co 16:6
  36. ^ 2Co 10:2
  37. ^ 2Co 5:16
  38. ^ Mt 5:37; Jm 5:12
  39. ^ Lu 1:35; Ac 9:20
  40. ^ Ac 18:5
  41. ^ Heb 13:8
  42. ^ Ge 3:15; 17:7; 49:10
  43. ^ Ro 15:8
  44. ^ 1Co 14:16; Re 3:14
  45. ^ 1Jo 2:20, 27
  46. ^ Eph 4:30
  47. ^ 2Co 5:5; Eph 1:14
  48. ^ Ro 8:9, 23; 1Co 12:13
  49. ^ Ro 1:9; Pp 1:8
  50. ^ 1Co 4:21
  51. ^ Heb 13:17; 1Pe 5:3
  52. ^ 1Co 3:9; 1Jo 1:3
  53. ^ Ro 11:20
  54. ^ 1Co 15:1

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Comments

  1. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  2. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  3. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  4. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  5. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  6. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  7. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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