1:7 and our hope [is] stedfast for you, knowing that even as ye are partakers of the sufferings -- so also of the comfort.
1:8 For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation that happened to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly burdened above [our] power, so that we despaired even of life;
1:9 but we ourselves in ourselves the sentence of the death have had, that we may not be trusting on ourselves, but on God, who is raising the dead,
1:10 who out of so great a death did deliver us, and doth deliver, in whom we have hoped that even yet He will deliver;
1:11 ye working together also for us by your supplication, that the gift through many persons to us, through many may be thankfully acknowledged for us.
1:13 for no other things do we write to you, but what ye either do read or also acknowledge, and I hope that also unto the end ye shall acknowledge,
1:14 according as also ye did acknowledge us in part, that your glory we are, even as also ye [are] ours, in the day of the LordJesus;
1:15 and in this confidence I was purposing to come unto you before, that a second favour ye might have,
1:16 and through you to pass to Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come unto you, and by you to be sent forward to Judea.
1:17 This, therefore, counselling, did I then use the lightness; or the things that I counsel, according to the flesh do I counsel, that it may be with me Yes, yes, and No, no?
1:18 and God [is] faithful, that our word unto you became not Yes and No,
1:19 for the Son of God, JesusChrist, among you through us having been preached -- through me and Silvanus and Timotheus -- did not become Yes and No, but in him it hath become Yes;
1:20 for as many as [are] promises of God, in him [are] the Yes, and in him the Amen, for glory to God through us;
1:21 and He who is confirming you with us into Christ, and did anoint us, [is] God,
1:22 who also sealed us, and gave the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
1:23 And I for a witness on God do call upon my soul, that sparing you, I came not yet to Corinth;
1:24 not that we are lords over your faith, but we are workers together with your joy, for by the faith ye stand.