MODERN LITERAL VERSION

1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God and Timothy our brother, to the congregation* of God which is in Corinth, with all the holy-ones who are in all of Achaia:
1:2 grace to you* and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

1:3 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the mercies and God of all encouragement is gracious*;
1:4 who is encouraging us in our every affliction, *that* we may be able to encourage those who are in any affliction, through the encouragement with which we ourselves are encouraged by God.
1:5 Because as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, so our encouragement also abounds through Christ.
1:6 But whether we are afflicted, it is on behalf of your* encouragement and salvation; which is working in the endurance of the same sufferings which we also are suffering; and our hope is steadfast on your* behalf. If whether we are encouraged, it is on behalf of your* encouragement and salvation,
1:7 knowing that, as you* are partners of the sufferings, so you* are also of the comfort.
1:8 For* brethren, we do not wish you* to be ignorant in regard to our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were burdened down surpassingly, beyond our power, so-that we despaired even of life.
1:9 But, we ourselves have had the condemnation of death in ourselves, that* we should not have confidence in ourselves, but in God, who is raising up the dead.
1:10 He rescued us out of so-great a death and is rescuing us; in whom we have hoped that he will also still rescue us.
1:11 You* are also working together by your* supplication on our behalf; that* the gift* to us from {F} many might be a thanksgiving through many people on our behalf.

1:12 For* this is our boasting, the testimony of our conscience, that in clarity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we conducted ourselves in the world and even-more toward you*.
1:13 For* we are writing no other things to you*, but what you* are reading or even what you* know. Now I hope you* will fully know these things we write to the end;
1:14 as you* also recognized us in part, that we are your* boasting, just-as you* are also ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

1:15 And in this confidence, I intended to come to you* beforehand, that* you* might have a second favor from me;
1:16 and through you* to go through Macedonia, and from Macedonia to come to you* again and to be sent onward to Judea by you*.
1:17 Therefore while I was intending this then, I did not consequently use fickleness, did I? Or what I will, do I will them according to the flesh, that* there should be with me the yes, yes and the no, no?
1:18 But as God is faithful, our word toward you* did not become yes and no.
1:19 For* the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you* through us, that is through me and Silvanus and Timothy, did not become yes and no, but in him it has become yes.
1:20 For* as many things as are the promises of God, in him is the yes and in him is the amen, for glory to God through us.
1:21 Now he who is confirming us with you* in Christ and anointed us is God,
1:22 who also sealed us and gave us the down-payment of the Spirit in our hearts.

1:23 Now I call God as a witness upon my soul, that to spare you*, I came to Corinth no more.
1:24 Not that we have lordship over your* faith, but are fellow workers of your* joy; for* you* stand fast in the faith.
{Footnotes: 1:11 Literally: many faces; i.e. many mouths.}