2 Corinthians 112 CorinthiansPaul's ministry explainedThe Orthodox Jewish Bible Tanakh and Orthodox Jewish Brit Chadasha The Holy Bible

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1. Paul Greets the Corinthians

   (Acts 18:1–11; 1 Corinthians 1:1–3)

2. 1ENGOJBFrom Sha'ul, a Shliach of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua birtzon Hashem (by the will of G-d), and Timotiyos, the Ach b'Moshiach; To the Kehillah (Congregation) of Hashem existing in Corinth, with all the Kedoshim throughout Achaia.BSBBSB: Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God in Corinth, together with all the saints throughout Achaia:
3. 2ENGOJBChen v'Chesed Hashem to you and shalom from Elohim Avinu and Adoneinu Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua.BSBBSB: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

4. The God of All Comfort

5. 3ENGOJBBaruch hu Hashem Elohim Avi of Adoneinu Yehoshua HaMoshiach, Avi HaRachamim vaElohei kol nechamah (comfort),BSBBSB: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort,
6. 4ENGOJBThe one giving us chizzuk (strengthening) with respect to all our tzoros so as to enable us to give chizzuk to the ones experiencing tzoros, and that through the nechamah (comfort) by which we ourselves are comforted by Hashem.BSBBSB: who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.
7. 5ENGOJBThis is so because as the Chevlei Moshiach (birth pangs of Moshiach) abound to us, so through Moshiach abounds also our nechamah.BSBBSB: For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.
8. 6ENGOJBNow if we are experiencing tzoros, it is for your chizzuk (strengthening) and Yeshu'at Eloheinu; or if we are being given nechamah (comfort), it is for your nechamah that is producing in you the chozek (strength) of savlanut (patience) for the endurance of the tzoros which we also suffer.BSBBSB: If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which accomplishes in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we experience.
9. 7ENGOJBAnd our tikvah (hope) for you is well-founded, for we have da'as that as you have deveykus (cleaving to) the Chevlei Moshiach, so also you will have deveykus to the nechamah.BSBBSB: And our hope for you is sure, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you will share in our comfort.
10. 8ENGOJBFor we do not want you to lack da'as, Achim b'Moshiach, as to the tzoros and tribulation that came upon us in Asia, that utterly beyond our strength we were burdened, causing us to come to a feeling of ye'ush (despair) even of being able to stay alive.BSBBSB: We do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the hardships we encountered in the province of Asia. We were under a burden far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life.
11. 9ENGOJBBut we ourselves have had the gezar din (verdict) of mishpat mavet (a death sentence) in ourselves so that we should not have emunah (faith) in ourselves but in Hashem, Mechayyei Mesim (Who Revivest the Dead).BSBBSB: Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead.
12. 10ENGOJBThe same G-d out of so great a Mavet delivered us and will continue to deliver us. We have set tikvateinu (our hope) that he will yet deliver us,BSBBSB: He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and He will deliver us. In Him we have placed our hope that He will yet again deliver us,
13. 11ENGOJBAs you also labor together for us by techinnah (supplication), so that the “Modeh Ani” for us will be said by the many for the matanah (gift) granted us through the tefillos of the many.BSBBSB: as you help us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the favor shown us in answer to their prayers.

14. Paul’s Change of Plans

15. 12ENGOJBFor our glorying is in this: the edut (testimony) of our matzpun (conscience) is that without remiyah (guile, fraud, deceit) and with lev tahor (pure heart ), with the sincerity of Hashem and not in the “chochmah” of the basar but in the Chen v'Chesed of Hashem, we conducted ourselves in the Olam Hazeh, and more especially toward you.BSBBSB: For this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in relation to you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God—not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God.
16. 13ENGOJBFor we write nothing so shver (complex) to you that you cannot read and have binah (understanding), and I have tikvah that you will have da'as shlemah until HaKetz,BSBBSB: For we do not write you anything that is beyond your ability to read and understand. And I hope that you will understand us completely,
17. 14ENGOJBAs you have already had da'as of us in part, as also we are your kavod, even as also you are ours in the Yom Hashem of Adoneinu Yehoshua.BSBBSB: as you have already understood us in part, that you may boast of us just as we will boast of you in the day of our Lord Jesus.
18. 15ENGOJBAnd with this bitachon (confidence) I planned previously to come to you, that a second benefit you might have.BSBBSB: Confident of this, I planned to visit you first, so that you might receive a double blessing.
19. 16ENGOJBIt was my cheshbon (plan) to visit you by way of Macedonia and again from Macedonia to come to you, and by you to be sent on to Yehudah (Judea).BSBBSB: I wanted to visit you on my way to Macedonia, and to return to you from Macedonia, and then to have you help me on my way to Judea.
20. 17ENGOJBThis was my matarah (aim, goal); surely then I did not act with vacillation? Or when I make plans, do I have a cheshbon according to the basar, ready with “Ken, Ken!” and then, “Lo! Lo!”BSBBSB: When I planned this, did I do it carelessly? Or do I make my plans by human standards, so as to say “Yes, yes” and also “No, no”?
21. 18ENGOJBAl emunat Hashem (in the faithfulness of G-d), our dvar to you has not been “Ken” and “Lo.”BSBBSB: But as surely as God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes” and “No.”
22. 19ENGOJBFor the Zun fun der Oybershter, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua, the One having been proclaimed among you by us, by Silvanus (Sila) and Timotiyos and me, was not a “Ken and Lo”; but in Him it has always been “Ken.”BSBBSB: For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was proclaimed among you by me and Silvanus and Timothy, was not “Yes” and “No,” but in Him it has always been “Yes.”
23. 20ENGOJBFor in Moshiach every one of Hashemʼs havtachot (promises) is a “Ken.” For this reason it is b'Shem Moshiach that we say the “Omein” to the kavod of Hashem.BSBBSB: For all the promises of God are “Yes” in Christ. And so through Him, our “Amen” is spoken to the glory of God.
24. 21ENGOJBBut it is Hashem who establishes us with you in Moshiach and has given us the mishchah (anointing),BSBBSB: Now it is God who establishes both us and you in Christ. He anointed us,
25. 22ENGOJBHaving put his chotam on us and having given the eravon (pledge) of the Ruach Hakodesh in our levavot (hearts).BSBBSB: placed His seal on us, and put His Spirit in our hearts as a pledge of what is to come.
26. 23ENGOJBNow, I call upon Hashem as eidus (witness) against my nefesh, my neshamah (soul), that it was to spare you that I did not come again to Corinth.BSBBSB: I call God as my witness that it was in order to spare you that I did not return to Corinth.
27. 24ENGOJBNot that we play the gontser macher to domineer over your emunah (faith), but we are fellow po'alim for your simcha, for by emunah you stand.BSBBSB: Not that we lord it over your faith, but we are fellow workers with you for your joy, because it is by faith that you stand firm.

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