my spirit and yours. Know ye them that are such!

The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla and the congregation in their house greet you greatly in the Lord.

All the brothers greet you. Greet one another with the holy kiss.

I, Paul, greet you with my hand.

If any man love not the Lord Jehovah Christ, let him be anathema, Maharam Motha.

The grace of the Lord JEsu Christ be with you.

My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.
The first epistle to the Corinthians, sent from Philippi, by Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus and Timotheus.
Text of the unrevised Luther Bible 1545:
DeepL English Translation
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The second letter to the Corinthians of Paul (2 Corinthians) ^
Chapter 1
Paul’s patience in persecution.

Paul, an apostle of JESUS Christ by the will of GOD, and brother Timothy: To the church of GOD at Corinth, with all the saints throughout Achaia.

Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercy and the God of all comfort, 4. Who comforteth us in all our afflictions, that we may comfort them also which are in all our afflictions with consolation, that we may be comforted of GOD.

For as we have much of the passion of Christ, even so we are abundantly comforted through Christ.

But if we have affliction or comfort, it is for your good. If it be affliction, it is for your comfort and salvation: which salvation is proved, if ye suffer with patience as we suffer. If it be
comfort, it shall be unto you for comfort and salvation.

And let our hope stand firm for you, knowing that as ye are partakers of affliction, so shall ye also be partakers of consolation.

For we will not forbear you, brethren, our affliction, which was with us in Asia, when we were exceeding heavy, and exceeding mighty, so that we also despaired of life.

and had decided with ourselves that we must die. But this was because we did not put our trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead,

Who hath delivered us from this death, and delivereth us every day: and we hope in him that he will deliver us also henceforth.

By the help of your intercession for us, that much thanksgiving may be given upon us for the gift that is given to us, through many persons.

For our glory is this, that our conscience bears witness, that we have walked in simplicity and godly integrity, not in carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God in the world, and most of all with you.

For we write no other things unto you, but what ye read and find. But I hope that ye will find us even unto the end, even as ye have found us in part.

For we are your glory, even as ye are our glory in the day of JESUS the LORD.

And in this confidence I thought to come unto you at that time, that ye might receive a benefit,

And I journeyed by you into Macedonia, and came again out of Macedonia unto you, and was led of you into Judaea.

But have I used levity in thinking these things, or are my judgments carnal? Not so; but with me yea is yea, and nay is nay.

But, O faithful God, that our word to you had not been yea and nay!

For the Son of God, JESUS Christ, which is preached among you by us, by me, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, was not yea and nay; but yea was in him.

For all the promises of God are yea in him, and are amen in him, to the praise of God through us.

But it is God that hath established us together with you in Christ, and hath anointed us.

And sealed, and put in our hearts the pledge, the Spirit.

But I call God to witness upon my soul, that I have spared you in that I came not again to Corinth.

Not that we are lords over your faith, but that we are the helpers of your joy: for ye stand by faith.
(2 Corinthians)
Chapter 2
Readmission of the penitent sinner.

But I thought such things of myself, that I should not come again unto you in sadness.

For if I make you sad, who is he that maketh me glad, without he that is made sad by me?

And these things have I written unto you, lest, when I came, I should be sorrowful, whereof I should rejoice; for I promise this unto you all, that my joy shall be the joy of you all.

For I wrote unto you in great affliction and anguish of heart with many tears, not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have especially unto you.

But if any man hath caused any affliction, he hath not afflicted me without in part, lest I should afflict you all.

But it is enough that he is thus punished of many.

That ye henceforth more abundantly pardon and comfort him, lest he sink into too great sorrow.

Wherefore I exhort you to shew love toward him.

For this cause also have I written unto you, to know whether ye are righteous to be obedient in all things.

But whosoever ye forgive, I forgive him also. For I also, if I forgive any thing, forgive it for your sakes in Christ’s stead,

That we be not taken in hand by Satan: for we are not ignorant of what he hath in mind.

And when I was come to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, a door was opened unto me in the Lord,

I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but I made my departure with them, and went out into Macedonia.

But thanks be to God, which always giveth us the victory in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.

For we are unto God the good savour of Christ, both of them that are saved, and of them that are lost:

To these a smell of death unto death, and to those a smell of life unto life. And who is able to do this?

For we are not as some many, which pervert the word of God: but as of sincerity, and as of God, before God, speak we in Christ.
(2 Corinthians)
Chapter 3
Defending the evangelical preaching ministry.

Do we then begin again to praise ourselves? Or have we need, as some have, of letters of praise to you, or of letters of praise from you?

You are our letter, written in our hearts, to be known and read by all men, 3. Who have been made manifest that ye are the epistle of Christ, prepared by our preaching ministry, and written by us, not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
(Epistle on the twelfth Sunday after Trinity.)

But we have such confidence in God through Christ.

Not that we are able of ourselves to think anything but of ourselves, but that we are able is of GOD,
6.Who also hath made us able to do the ministry of the new testament, not of the letter, but of the spirit. For the letter killeth, but the Spirit quickeneth.

And the ministry, which killeth by letters, and is formed in stones, had clearness; so that the children of Israel could not look upon the face of Moses, because of the clearness of his countenance, which ceaseth,

how should not much more the office that gives the Spirit have clarity?

For if the ministry which preacheth condemnation have glory, much more hath the ministry which preacheth righteousness exceeding glory.

For even that part which was glorified is not to be reckoned clear against this exceeding clear.

For if that which ceaseth hath clearness, much more shall that which continueth have clearness].

Forasmuch then as we have this hope, we have need of great joy.

And do not as Moses did, when he hanged the covering before his face, so that the children of Israel could not see the end of him that ceaseth.

But their minds are hardened: for unto this day the same covering remaineth uncovered over the Old Testament, when they read it, which ceaseth in Christ.

But to this day, when Moses is read, the ceiling hangs before their hearts.

But if he turn unto the LORD, the covering is taken away.

For the LORD is the Spirit. And where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

But now in us all the glory of the Lord is reflected with unveiled face: and we are changed into the same image from glory to glory, as of the Spirit of the Lord.
(2 Corinthians)
Chapter 4
Fruitfulness of the gospel in believers struggling under the cross.

Wherefore, seeing we have such a ministry, after mercy hath been shown unto us, we are not weary

but also shun secret shame, and deal not with mischievousness, neither counterfeit the word of
God, but with revelation of the truth, and prove ourselves well against all men’s consciences before God.

If therefore our gospel be hid, it is hid in them that perish, 4. In whom the God of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, so that they do not see the bright light of the gospel of the clarity of Christ, who is the image of God.

For we preach not ourselves, but JESUS Christ, that he is the LORD: and we your servants for JESUS’ sake.

For God, who caused the light to shine out of darkness, hath given a bright light in our hearts, that there might be an illumination of the knowledge of the glory