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 奉 神旨意作基督耶稣使徒的保罗和兄弟提摩太，写信给在哥林多 神的教会，并亚该亚遍处的众圣徒。

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

2 愿恩惠、平安从 神我们的父和主耶稣基督归与你们！

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

3 愿颂赞归与我们的主耶稣基督的父 神，就是发慈悲的父，赐各样安慰的 神。

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 我们在一切患难中，他就安慰我们，叫我们能用 神所赐的安慰去安慰那遭各样患难的人。

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

5 我们既多受基督的苦楚，就靠基督多得安慰。

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 我们受患难呢，是为叫你们得安慰，得拯救；我们得安慰呢，也是为叫你们得安慰；这安慰能叫你们忍受我们所受的那样苦楚。

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 我们为你们所存的盼望是确定的，因为知道你们既是同受苦楚，也必同得安慰。

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 弟兄们，我们不要你们不晓得，我们从前在亚细亚遭遇苦难，被压太重，力不能胜，甚至连活命的指望都绝了；

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 自己心里也断定是必死的，叫我们不靠自己，只靠叫死人复活的 神。

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 他曾救我们脱离那极大的死亡，现在仍要救我们，并且我们指望他将来还要救我们。

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 你们以祈祷帮助我们，好叫许多人为我们谢恩，就是为我们因许多人所得的恩。

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 我们所夸的是自己的良心，见证我们凭着 神的圣洁和诚实；在世为人不靠人的聪明，乃靠 神的恩惠，向你们更是这样。

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 我们现在写给你们的话，并不外乎你们所念的、所认识的，我也盼望你们到底还是要认识；

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.

14 正如你们已经有几分认识我们，以我们夸口，好像我们在我们主耶稣的日子以你们夸口一样。

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

15 我既然这样深信，就早有意到你们那里去，叫你们再得益处；

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 也要从你们那里经过，往马其顿去，再从马其顿回到你们那里，叫你们给我送行往犹太去。

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 我有此意，岂是反复不定吗？我所起的意，岂是从情欲起的，叫我忽是忽非吗？

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

18 我指着信实的 神说，我们向你们所传的道，并没有是而又非的。

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 因为我和西拉并提摩太，在你们中间所传 神的儿子耶稣基督，总没有是而又非的，在他只有一是。

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 神的应许，不论有多少，在基督都是是的。所以借着他也都是实在 的，叫 神因我们得荣耀。

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

21 那在基督里坚固我们和你们，并且膏我们的就是 神。

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

22 他又用印印了我们，并赐圣灵在我们心里作凭据 。

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

23 我呼吁 神给我的心作见证，我没有往哥林多去是为要宽容你们。

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 我们并不是辖管你们的信心，乃是帮助你们的快乐，因为你们凭信才站立得住。