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, apostol Kristusa Jezusa po volji Božji, in Timotej, brat, cerkvi Božji, ki je v Korintu, z vsemi svetimi, ki bivajo po vsej Ahaji:

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

²Milost vam in mir od Boga Očeta našega in Gospoda Jezusa Kristusa!

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

³Hvaljen bodi Bog in Oče Gospoda našega Jezusa Kristusa, Oče usmiljenosti in Bog vsake tolažbe,

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.

⁴ki nas tolaži v vsaki stiski, da moremo i mi tolažiti tiste, ki so v kakršnikoli stiski s to tolažbo, s katero nas same tolaži Bog.

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

⁵Kajti kakor je obilno trpljenje Kristusovo pri nas, tako je po Kristusu obilna tolažba naša.

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.

⁶Če smo pa stiskani, je to za vašo tolažbo in rešitev; če pa uživamo tolažbo, je to za vašo tolažbo, ki naj vas podpira v prenašanju istega trpljenja, ki ga tudi mi trpimo.

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

⁷In upanje naše je trdno za vas, ker vemo, da kakor ste deležniki trpljenja, tako ste tudi tolažbe.

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.

⁸Kajti nočemo, da bi ne vedeli, bratje, za stisko našo, ki se nam je dogodila v Aziji, da smo bili hudo preobteženi, nad svojo moč, tako da smo obupali tudi nad življenjem;

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,

⁹da, sami v sebi smo izrekli smrtno obsodbo, – naj bi ne stavili upanja svojega na sebi, ampak na Bogu, ki obuja mrtve;

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;

¹⁰ki nas je take smrti otel in otimlje, v katerega upamo, da bo še dalje otimal;

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.

¹¹če pripomagate tudi vi nam z molitvijo, da bi se za dar, ki nam je dodeljen po molitvah mnogih, mnogi zahvaljevali zaradi nas.

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.

¹²Kajti hvala naša je ta: pričevanje vesti naše, da smo živeli v svetosti in čistosti Božji, ne v meseni modrosti, temuč v milosti Božji na svetu, posebno pa pri vas.

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

¹³Kajti nič drugega vam ne pišemo, nego kar berete in kar morate tudi priznati; upam pa, da boste to do konca priznavali,

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.

¹⁴kakor ste tudi priznali nas, vsaj nekoliko, da smo hvala vaša, kakor tudi vi naša v dan Gospoda našega Jezusa.

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

¹⁵In s tem zaupanjem sem hotel k vam priti poprej, da bi prejeli dvojno dobroto,

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.

¹⁶in od vas potovati v Macedonijo in zopet iz Macedonije priti k vam in od vas spremljen biti v Judejo.

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?”

¹⁷Ko sem torej to hotel, sem li lahkomiselno ravnal? ali kar sklepam, sklepam po mesu, da bi bilo pri meni hkratu ‚da, da‘ in ‚ne, ne‘?

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

¹⁸Ali zvest je Bog, da beseda naša do vas ni bila ‚da‘ in ‚ne‘.

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.”

¹⁹Kajti Božji Sin Jezus Kristus, ki smo ga med vami oznanili jaz in Silvan in Timotej, ni bil ‚da‘ in ‚ne‘, temuč v njem je bilo ‚da‘.

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.

²⁰Zakaj kolikorkoli je obljub Božjih, v njem so ‚da‘, zato tudi po njem ‚Amen‘ Bogu na slavo po nas.

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

²¹Ta pa, ki nas utrjuje z vami vred v Kristusa in nas je pomazilil, je Bog,

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

²²ki nas je tudi zapečatil in dal zastavo Duha v srca naša.

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

²³A jaz kličem za pričo Boga na svojo dušo, da iz prizanašanja do vas še nisem prišel v Korint.Ne da gospodujemo v veri vaši, temuč sodelavci smo za radost vašo; kajti z vero stojite.

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

²⁴Ne da gospodujemo v veri vaši, temuč sodelavci smo za radost vašo; kajti z vero stojite.