2-е Коринфянам 1
1 Павел, волею Божиею Апостол Иисуса Христа, и Тимофей брат, церкви Божией, находящейся в Коринфе, со всеми святыми по всей Ахаии:
Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God--and our brother Timothy: To the Church of God in Corinth, with all God's people throughout Greece.
2 благодать вам и мир от Бога Отца нашего и Господа Иисуса Христа.
May grace and peace be granted to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3 Благословен Бог и Отец Господа нашего Иисуса Христа, Отец милосердия и Бог всякого утешения,
Heartfelt thanks be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ--the Father who is full of compassion and the God who gives all comfort.
4 утешающий нас во всякой скорби нашей, чтобы и мы могли утешать находящихся во всякой скорби тем утешением, которым Бог утешает нас самих!
He comforts us in our every affliction so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction by means of the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
5 Ибо по мере, как умножаются в нас страдания Христовы, умножается Христом и утешение наше.
For just as we have more than our share of suffering for the Christ, so also through the Christ we have more than our share of comfort.
6 Скорбим ли мы, скорбим для вашего утешения и спасения, которое совершается перенесением тех же страданий, какие и мы терпим.
But if, on the one hand, we are enduring affliction, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if, on the other hand, we are receiving comfort, it is for your comfort which is produced within you through your patient fortitude under the same sufferings as those which we also are enduring.
7 И надежда наша о вас тверда. Утешаемся ли, утешаемся для вашего утешения и спасения, зная, что вы участвуете как в страданиях наших, так и в утешении.
And our hope for you is stedfast; for we know that as you are partners with us in the sufferings, so you are also partners in the comfort.
8 Ибо мы не хотим оставить вас, братия, в неведении о скорби нашей, бывшей с нами в Асии, потому что мы отягчены были чрезмерно и сверх силы, так что не надеялись остаться в живых.
For as for our troubles which came upon us in the province of Asia, we would have you know, brethren, that we were exceedingly weighed down, and felt overwhelmed, so that we renounced all hope even of life.
9 Но сами в себе имели приговор к смерти, для того чтобы надеяться не на самих себя, но на Бога, воскрешающего мертвых,
Nay, we had, as we still have, the sentence of death within our own selves, in order that our confidence may repose, not on ourselves, but on God who raised the dead to life.
10 Который и избавил нас от столь близкой смерти, и избавляет, и на Которого надеемся, что и еще избавит,
He it is who rescued us from so imminent a death, and will do so again; and we have a firm hope in Him that He will also rescue us in all the future,
11 при содействии и вашей молитвы за нас, дабы за дарованное нам, по ходатайству многих, многие возблагодарили за нас.
while you on your part lend us your aid in entreaty for us, so that from many lips thanksgivings may rise on our behalf for the boon granted to us at the intercession of many.
12 Ибо похвала наша сия есть свидетельство совести нашей, что мы в простоте и богоугодной искренности, не по плотской мудрости, но по благодати Божией, жили в мире, особенно же у вас.
For the reason for our boasting is this--the testimony of our own conscience that it was in holiness and with pure motives before God, and in reliance not on worldly wisdom but on the gracious help of God, that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and above all in our relations with you.
13 И мы пишем вам не иное, как то, что вы читаете или разумеете, и что, как надеюсь, до конца уразумеете,
For we are writing to you nothing different from what we have written before, or from what indeed you already recognize as truth and will, I trust, recognize as such to the very end;
14 так как вы отчасти и уразумели уже, что мы будем вашею похвалою, равно и вы нашею, в день Господа нашего Иисуса Христа.
just as some few of you have recognized us as your reason for boasting, even as you will be ours, on the day of Jesus our Lord.
15 И в этой уверенности я намеревался придти к вам ранее, чтобы вы вторично получили благодать,
It was because I entertained this confidence that I intended to visit you before going elsewhere--so that you might receive a twofold proof of God's favour--
16 и через вас пройти в Македонию, из Македонии же опять придти к вам; а вы проводили бы меня в Иудею.
and to pass by way of Corinth into Macedonia. Then my plan was to return from Macedonia to you, and be helped forward by you to Judaea.
17 Имея такое намерение, легкомысленно ли я поступил? Или что я предпринимаю, по плоти предпринимаю, так что у меня то “да, да”, то “нет, нет”?
Did I display any vacillation or caprice in this? Or the purposes which I form--do I form them on worldly principles, now crying "Yes, yes," and now "No, no"?
18 Верен Бог, что слово наше к вам не было то “да”, то “нет”.
As certainly as God is faithful, our language to you is not now "Yes" and now "No."
19 Ибо Сын Божий, Иисус Христос, проповеданный у вас нами, мною и Силуаном и Тимофеем, не был “да” и “нет”; но в Нем было “да”, -
For Jesus Christ the Son of God--He who was proclaimed among you by us, that is by Silas and Timothy and myself--did not show Himself a waverer between "Yes" and "No." But it was and always is "Yes" with Him.
20 ибо все обетования Божии в Нем “да” и в Нем “аминь”, - в славу Божию, через нас.
For all the promises of God, whatever their number, have their confirmation in Him; and for this reason through Him also our "Amen" acknowledges their truth and promotes the glory of God through our faith.
21 Утверждающий же нас с вами во Христе и помазавший нас есть Бог,
But He who is making us as well as you stedfast through union with the Anointed One, and has anointed us, is God,
22 Который и запечатлел нас и дал залог Духа в сердца наши.
and He has also set His seal upon us, and has put His Spirit into our hearts as a pledge and foretaste of future blessing.
23 Бога призываю во свидетели на душу мою, что, щадя вас, я доселе не приходил в Коринф,
But as for me, as my soul shall answer for it, I appeal to God as my witness, that it was to spare you pain that I gave up my visit to Corinth.
24 не потому, будто мы берем власть над верою вашею; но мы споспешествуем радости вашей: ибо верою вы тверды.
Not that we want to lord it over you in respect of your faith--we do, however, desire to help your joy--for in the matter of your faith you are standing firm.
