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:

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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,

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

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

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.

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;

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,

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

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;

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

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.

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

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.

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,

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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?”

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?

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

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

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.”

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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