1. Sha’ul, an emissary of יהושע Messiah, by the desire of Elohim, and Timothy the brother, to the assembly of Elohim that is at Corinth, with all the set-apart ones who are in all Achaia:
2. Favour to you and peace from Elohim our Father and the Master יהושע Messiah.
3. Blessed be the Elohim and Father of our Master יהושע Messiah, the Father of compassion and Elohim of all comfort,
4. who is comforting us in all our pressure, enabling us to comfort those who are in every pressure, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by Elohim.
5. Because, as the sufferings of Messiah overflow in us, so our comfort also overflows through Messiah.
6. And if we suffer pressure, it is for your comfort and deliverance, being worked out in enduring the same sufferings which we also suffer. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort and deliverance.
7. And our expectation for you is steadfast, because we know that as you are sharing in the sufferings – so also in the comfort.
8. For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brothers, of our pressure which came to us in Asia, that we were weighed down, exceedingly, beyond ability, so that we despaired even of life.
9. Indeed, we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in Elohim who raises the dead,