English Bible Presentation Sharing - 2-Corinthians Book, chapter 1, verse 18 in Hcsb Version

2 Corinthians 1 : 1 (HCSB)

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by God's will, and Timothy our brother: To God's church at Corinth, with all the saints who are throughout Achaia.

2 Corinthians 1 : 2 (HCSB)

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

2 Corinthians 1 : 3 (HCSB)

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort.

2 Corinthians 1 : 4 (HCSB)

He comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction, through the comfort we ourselves receive from God.

2 Corinthians 1 : 5 (HCSB)

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

2 Corinthians 1 : 6 (HCSB)

If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which is experienced in the endurance of the same sufferings that we suffer.

2 Corinthians 1 : 7 (HCSB)

And our hope for you is firm, because we know that as you share in the sufferings, so you will share in the comfort.

2 Corinthians 1 : 8 (HCSB)

For we don't want you to be unaware, brothers, of our affliction that took place in the province of Asia: we were completely overwhelmed-- beyond our strength-- so that we even despaired of life.

2 Corinthians 1 : 9 (HCSB)

However, we personally had a death sentence within ourselves so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead.

2 Corinthians 1 : 10 (HCSB)

He has delivered us from such a terrible death, and He will deliver us; we have placed our hope in Him that He will deliver us again.

2 Corinthians 1 : 11 (HCSB)

And you can join in helping with prayer for us, so that thanks may be given by many on our behalf for the gift that came to us through *the prayers of many.

2 Corinthians 1 : 12 (HCSB)

For our boast is this: the testimony of our conscience that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, with God-given sincerity and purity, not by fleshly wisdom but by God's grace.

2 Corinthians 1 : 13 (HCSB)

Now we are writing you nothing other than what you can read and also understand. I hope you will understand completely--

2 Corinthians 1 : 14 (HCSB)

as you have partially understood us-- that we are your reason for pride, as you are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

2 Corinthians 1 : 15 (HCSB)

In this confidence, I planned to come to you first, so you could have a double benefit,

2 Corinthians 1 : 16 (HCSB)

and to go on to Macedonia with your help, then come to you again from Macedonia and be given a start by you on my journey to Judea.

2 Corinthians 1 : 17 (HCSB)

So when I planned this, was I irresponsible? Or what I plan, do I plan in a purely human way so that I say "Yes, yes" and "No, no" *simultaneously ?

2 Corinthians 1 : 18 (HCSB)

As God is faithful, our message to you is not "Yes and no."

2 Corinthians 1 : 19 (HCSB)

For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us-- by me and Silvanus and Timothy-- did not become "Yes and no"; on the contrary, "Yes" has come about in Him.

2 Corinthians 1 : 20 (HCSB)

For every one of God's promises is "Yes" in Him. Therefore the "Amen" is also through Him for God's glory through us.

2 Corinthians 1 : 21 (HCSB)

Now the One who confirms us with you in Christ, and has anointed us, is God;

2 Corinthians 1 : 22 (HCSB)

He has also sealed us and given us the Spirit as a down payment in our hearts.

2 Corinthians 1 : 23 (HCSB)

I call on God as a witness against me: it was to spare you that I did not come to Corinth.

2 Corinthians 1 : 24 (HCSB)

Not that we have control of your faith, but we are workers with you for your joy, because you stand by faith.