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Paul an Apostle of Iesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothie our brother, vnto the Church of God, which is at Corinth, with all the Saints, which are in all Achaia:

Grace bee to you and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Iesus Christ.

Blessed be God, euen the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort,

Who comforteth vs in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort, wherewith we our selues are comforted of God.

But we had the sentence of death in our selues, that we should not trust in our selues, but in God which raiseth the dead.

For our reioycing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicitie and godly sinceritie, not with fleshly wisedome, but by the grace of God, wee haue had our conuersation in the world, and more aboundantly to youwards.

But as God is true, our word toward you, was not yea and nay.

For the Sonne of God Iesus Christ, who was preached among you by vs, euen by me, and Syluanus and Timotheus, was not Yea, and Nay, but in him, was yea.

For all the promises of God in him are Yea, and in him Amen, vnto the glory of God by vs.

Now hee which stablisheth vs with you, in Christ, and hath anoynted vs, is God,

Moreouer, I call God for a record vpon my soule, that to spare you I came not as yet vnto Corinth.

Now thankes bee vnto God, which alwayes causeth vs to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the sauour of his knowledge by vs in euery place.

For wee are vnto God, a sweet sauour of Christ, in them that are saued, and in them that perish.

For wee are not as many which corrupt the word of God: but as of sinceritie, but as of God, in the sight of God speake we in Christ.

Forasmuch as yee are manifestly declared to be the Epistle of Christ ministred by vs, written not with inke, but with the spirit of the liuing God, not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

Not that wee are sufficient of our selues to thinke any thing as of our selues: but our sufficiencie is of God:

But haue renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftines, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the trueth, commending our selues to euery mans conscience, in the sight of God.

In whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which beleeue not, lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine vnto them.

For God who commaunded the light to shine out of darkenes, hath shined in our hearts, to giue the light of the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Iesus Christ.

But we haue this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellencie of the power may be of God, and not of vs.