¹問安奉　神旨意作基督耶穌使徒的保羅，和提摩太弟兄，寫信給在哥林多　神的教會，和全亞該亞所有的聖徒。

¹Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:

²願恩惠平安從我們的父　神和主耶穌基督臨到你們。

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

³患難中　神賜安慰我們主耶穌基督的父　神是應當稱頌的。他是滿有憐憫的父，賜各樣安慰的　神。

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

⁴我們在一切患難中，　神都安慰我們，使我們能用他所賜的安慰，去安慰那些在各樣患難中的人。

⁴who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

⁵我們既然多受基督所受的痛苦，就靠著基督多得安慰。

⁵For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.

⁶如果我們遭遇患難，那是要使你們得著安慰，得著拯救；如果我們得到安慰，也是要使你們得到安慰。這安慰使你們能夠忍受我們所受那樣的痛苦。

⁶But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.

⁷我們對你們的盼望是堅定的，因為知道你們既然一同受痛苦，也必照樣同得安慰。

⁷Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so also are you of the comfort.

⁸弟兄們，我們在亞西亞遭受的患難，我們很想讓你們知道。那時我們受到了過於我們所能忍受的壓力，甚至活下去的希望都沒有了，

⁸For we don’t desire to have you uninformed, brothers, The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.” concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.

⁹而且斷定自己是必死的了；然而，這正是要我們不倚靠自己，只倚靠那叫死人復活的　神。

⁹Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

¹⁰他救我們脫離了那極大的死亡，而且他還要救我們，我們希望他將來仍要救我們。

¹⁰who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver; on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;

¹¹請你們一同用禱告支持我們，好使許多人為著我們所蒙的恩獻上感謝。這恩是藉著許多人的代求而得到的。

¹¹you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift bestowed on us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on your behalf.

¹²保羅計劃再到哥林多我們引以為榮的，就是我們處世為人，是本著　神的聖潔和真誠，不是靠著人的聰明，而是靠著　神的恩典，對你們更是這樣，這是我們的良心可以作證的。

¹²For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

¹³我們現在寫給你們的，不外是你們可以宣讀、可以明白的。

¹³For we write no other things to you, than what you read or even acknowledge, and I hope you will acknowledge to the end;

¹⁴正如你們對我們已經有些認識，我盼望你們可以徹底明白：在我們的主耶穌的日子，我們是你們的光榮，你們也是我們的光榮。

¹⁴as also you acknowledged us in part, that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

¹⁵我既然有這樣的信念，就打算先到你們那裡，使你們再一次得到恩惠，

¹⁵In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit;

¹⁶然後經過你們那裡，往馬其頓去，再從馬其頓回到你們中間，讓你們給我送行往猶太去。

¹⁶and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be sent forward by you on my journey to Judea.

¹⁷我這樣決定，難道是反覆不定嗎？我所決定的，難道是體貼肉體而定，使我忽是忽非嗎？

¹⁷When I therefore was thus determined, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the “Yes, yes” and the “No, no?”

¹⁸　神是信實的，我們向你們所傳的道並不是“是”而又“非”的，

¹⁸But as God is faithful, our word toward you was not “Yes and no.”

¹⁹因為我、西拉和提摩太，在你們中間所宣揚的耶穌基督，　神的兒子，並不是“是”而又“非”的，在他總是“是”的。

¹⁹For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, by me, Silvanus, and Timothy, was not “Yes and no,” but in him is “Yes.”

²⁰因為　神的一切應許，在基督裡都是“是”的，為此我們藉著他說“阿們”，使榮耀歸於　神。

²⁰For however many are the promises of God, in him is the “Yes.” Therefore also through him is the “Amen,” to the glory of God through us.

²¹那在基督裡堅定我們和你們，又膏抹我們的，就是　神。

²¹Now he who establishes us with you in Christ, and anointed us, is God;

²²他在我們身上蓋了印，就是賜聖靈在我們心裡作憑據。

²²who also sealed us, and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.

²³我呼求　神給我作證，我沒有再到哥林多來，是要寬容你們。

²³But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn’t come to Corinth to spare you.

²⁴我們並不是要轄制你們的信仰，而是要作你們的同工，使你們喜樂，因為你們在信仰上已經站穩了。

²⁴Not that we have lordship over your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.