¹Pavel, apoštol Ježiša Krista, vôľou Božou a brat Timoteus cirkvi Božej, ktorá je v Korinte, so všetkými svätými, ktorí sú v celej Achaji:

¹Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother, to the assembly of God that is in Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia:

²milosť vám a pokoj od Boha, nášho Otca, a od Pána Ježiša Krista.

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

³Požehnaný Bôh a Otec nášho Pána Ježiša Krista, Otec milosrdenstiev a Bôh každého potešenia,

³Blessed [is] God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the mercies, and God of all comfort,

⁴ktorý nás teší v každom našom súžení, aby sme aj my mohli tešiť tých, ktorí sú v akomkoľvek súžení, potešením, ktorým sme sami tešení od Boha.

⁴who is comforting us in all our tribulation, for our being able to comfort those in any tribulation through the comfort with which we are comforted ourselves by God;

⁵Lebo jako hojnejú utrpenia Kristove proti nám, tak skrze Krista hojneje i naše potešenie.

⁵because, as the sufferings of the Christ do abound to us, so through the Christ doth abound also our comfort;

⁶A buď že sme súžení - za vaše potešenie a spasenie, ktoré pôsobí v trpezlivom znášaní tých istých utrpení, ktoré aj my trpíme; buď že sme tešení - za vaše potešenie a spasenie, a naša nádej je pevná za vás,

⁶and whether we be in tribulation, [it is] for your comfort and salvation, that is wrought in the enduring of the same sufferings that we also suffer; whether we are comforted, [it is] for your comfort and salvation;

⁷vediac, že jako ste účastníkmi utrpení, tak i potešenia.

⁷and our hope [is] stedfast for you, knowing that even as ye are partakers of the sufferings — so also of the comfort.

⁸Lebo nechceme, aby ste nevedeli, bratia, o našom súžení, ktoré sme mali v Ázii, že sme boli nad mieru obťažení, nad svoju silu, takže sme pochybovali aj o svojom živote;

⁸For 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;

⁹ale sami v sebe boli sme dostali odvetu smrti nato, aby sme nedúfali sami v seba, ale v Boha, ktorý kriesi mŕtvych,

⁹but 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,

¹⁰ktorý nás vytrhol z takej veľkej smrti a vytrhuje, na ktorého sa nadejeme, že aj ešte vytrhne,

¹⁰who out of so great a death did deliver us, and doth deliver, in whom we have hoped that even yet He will deliver;

¹¹keď aj vy spolu pôsobíte modlitbou za nás, aby mnoho osôb ďakovalo za nás za dar milosti, nám daný skrze mnohých.

¹¹ye working together also for us by your supplication, that the gift through many persons to us, through many may be thankfully acknowledged for us.

¹²Lebo našou chválou je toto: svedoctvo nášho svedomia, že v svätosti, (prostote) a v čistote Božej, nie v telesnej múdrosti, ale v milosti Božej sme obcovali na svete a zvlášte u vás,

¹²For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we did conduct ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;

¹³lebo vám nepíšeme iného, ale iba to, čo čítate alebo čo i dobre znáte, a nadejem sa, že aj až do konca znať budete,

¹³for 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,

¹⁴jako ste nás aj poznali z čiastky, že sme vašou chlúbou, jako aj vy našou v deň nášho Pána Ježiša.

¹⁴according as also ye did acknowledge us in part, that your glory we are, even as also ye [are] ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus;

¹⁵A v tejto dôvere som chcel tam prv prijsť k vám, aby ste mali druhú milosť,

¹⁵and in this confidence I was purposing to come unto you before, that a second favour ye might have,

¹⁶a potom od vás ísť do Macedonie a z Macedonie zase prijsť k vám, aby ste ma potom doprevadili do Judska.

¹⁶and through you to pass to Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come unto you, and by you to be sent forward to Judea.

¹⁷Keď som teda to chcel, či to tedy bola ľahkomyseľnosť z mojej strany? Alebo to, čo si kedy umyslím, či si to umyslím podľa tela, aby bolo u mňa áno áno a nie nie?

¹⁷This, 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?

¹⁸Ale verný je Bôh, že naše slovo, vám hovorené, nebolo áno a nie.

¹⁸and God [is] faithful, that our word unto you became not Yes and No,

¹⁹Lebo Syn Boží, Ježiš Kristus, ktorý bol skrze nás medzi vami kázaný, skrze mňa a Silvána a Timotea, nebol áno a nie, ale bolo áno a v ňom.

¹⁹for the Son of God, Jesus Christ, 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;

²⁰Lebo všetky zasľúbenia Božie, koľko ich je, sú v ňom áno a preto aj skrze neho ameň, Bohu na slávu skrze nás.

²⁰for as many as [are] promises of God, in him [are] the Yes, and in him the Amen, for glory to God through us;

²¹Avšak ten, kto nás spolu s vami upevňuje v Krista a nás pomazal, je Bôh,

²¹and He who is confirming you with us into Christ, and did anoint us, [is] God,

²²ktorý si nás i zapečatil a dal závdavok Ducha do našich sŕdc.

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

²³No, ja volám Boha za svedka na svoju dušu, že preto, že som vás šetril, neprišiel som viac do Korintu.

²³And I for a witness on God do call upon my soul, that sparing you, I came not yet to Corinth;

²⁴Nie že by sme panovali nad vašou vierou, ale že sme spolupracovníkmi na vašej radosti, lebo vierou stojíte.

²⁴not that we are lords over your faith, but we are workers together with your joy, for by the faith ye stand.