2 Corinthians 1

1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God in Corinth, together with all the saints throughout Achaia:

1 我是奉上帝旨意做基督耶稣使徒的保罗，与提摩太弟兄写信给在哥林多的上帝的教会以及亚该亚境内所有的圣徒。

2 Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

2 愿我们的父上帝和主耶稣基督赐给你们恩典和平安！

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort,

3 我们主耶稣基督的父上帝当受赞美！祂是仁慈的父和赐一切安慰的上帝。

4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.

4 我们遭遇任何患难，祂都安慰我们，使我们能够用祂给我们的安慰去安慰那些在各样患难中的人。

5 For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.

5 正如我们多受基督的苦难，也靠基督多得安慰。

6 If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which accomplishes in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we experience.

6 我们遭受患难，是为了使你们得到安慰和拯救；我们得到安慰，也是为了使你们得到安慰，以便你们能忍受像我们所遭遇的各样苦难。

7 And our hope for you is sure, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you will share in our comfort.

7 我们对你们坚信不移，因为知道你们既和我们同受苦难，也必和我们同得安慰。

8 We do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the hardships we encountered in the province of Asia. We were under a burden far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life.

8 弟兄姊妹，希望你们知道我们在亚细亚所遭遇的苦难。那时我们承受极大的压力，超过了我们的极限，甚至连活命的指望都没了。

9 Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead.

9 我们心里觉得必死无疑，这使我们不倚靠自己，只倚靠使死人复活的上帝。

10 He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and He will deliver us. In Him we have placed our hope that He will yet again deliver us,

10 祂曾救我们脱离可怕的死亡，并且还要救我们。我们深信祂必继续救我们。

11 as you help us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the favor shown us in answer to their prayers.

11 你们也要用祈祷帮助我们，使恩典借着许多人的祷告临到我们，众人便因此为我们感恩。

12 For this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in relation to you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God—not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God.

12 我们引以为荣的是：我们为人处世是本着上帝所赐的圣洁和诚实，倚靠祂的恩典，不倚靠人的聪明才智，对待你们更是这样。这一点，我们的良心可以作证。

13 For we do not write you anything that is beyond your ability to read and understand. And I hope that you will understand us completely,

13–14 我们不写任何你们不能读、不能懂的内容。你们现在对我们有几分认识，但我盼望你们最终完全认识到：当主耶稣再来的日子，你们将以我们为荣，我们也将以你们为荣。

14 as you have already understood us in part, that you may boast of us just as we will boast of you in the day of our Lord Jesus.

15 Confident of this, I planned to visit you first, so that you might receive a double blessing.

15 我有这样的把握，所以早就计划去你们那里，使你们有再次蒙福的机会。

16 I wanted to visit you on my way to Macedonia, and to return to you from Macedonia, and then to have you help me on my way to Judea.

16 我打算经过你们那里去马其顿，再从马其顿回到你们那里，然后你们为我送行前往犹太。

17 When I planned this, did I do it carelessly? Or do I make my plans by human standards, so as to say “Yes, yes” and also “No, no”?

17 我定了这计划，难道会反复无常吗？难道我是意气用事，出尔反尔吗？

18 But as surely as God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes” and “No.”

18 我在信实的上帝面前保证：我们对你们说的话绝不会忽是忽非！

19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was proclaimed among you by me and Silvanus and Timothy, was not “Yes” and “No,” but in Him it has always been “Yes.”

19 我和西拉、提摩太在你们当中传扬的上帝之子耶稣基督，绝不会忽是忽非，在祂只有“是”。

20 For all the promises of God are “Yes” in Christ. And so through Him, our “Amen” is spoken to the glory of God.

20 因为上帝的一切应许在基督里都是确实的，所以我们也是借着基督说“阿们”，将荣耀归于上帝。

21 Now it is God who establishes both us and you in Christ. He anointed us,

21 是上帝使我们和你们一同在基督里坚立。祂膏抹了我们，

22 placed His seal on us, and put His Spirit in our hearts as a pledge of what is to come.

22 在我们身上盖了祂自己的印记，并让圣灵住在我们心中作担保。

23 I call God as my witness that it was in order to spare you that I did not return to Corinth.

23 我求上帝为我做见证：我没有去哥林多，是为了宽容你们。

24 Not that we lord it over your faith, but we are fellow workers with you for your joy, because it is by faith that you stand firm.

24 我们并不是要操纵你们的信仰，而是要帮助你们，使你们喜乐，因为你们在信仰上已经站稳了。