Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, New Living Translation All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is our merciful Father and the source of all comfort. English Standard Version Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, Berean Standard Bible Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, Berean Literal Bible Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassions, and God of all comfort, King James Bible Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; New King James Version Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, New American Standard Bible Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, NASB 1995 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, NASB 1977 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort; Legacy Standard Bible Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, Amplified Bible Blessed [gratefully praised and adored] be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort, Christian Standard Bible Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort. Holman Christian Standard Bible Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort. American Standard Version Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort; Aramaic Bible in Plain English Blessed is God The Father of our Lord Yeshua The Messiah, The Father of mercy and The God of all comfort, Contemporary English Version Praise God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! The Father is a merciful God, who always gives us comfort. Douay-Rheims Bible Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort. English Revised Version Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort; GOD'S WORD® Translation Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! He is the Father who is compassionate and the God who gives comfort. Good News Translation Let us give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the merciful Father, the God from whom all help comes! International Standard Version Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah! He is our merciful Father and the God of all comfort, Literal Standard Version Blessed [is] God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and God of all comfort, Majority Standard Bible Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, New American Bible Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and God of all encouragement, NET Bible Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, New Revised Standard Version Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all consolation, New Heart English Bible Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort; Webster's Bible Translation Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all consolation. Weymouth New Testament 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. World English Bible Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, Young's Literal Translation Blessed is God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the mercies, and God of all comfort, Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The God of All Comfort2Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.… Cross References Psalm 68:35 O God, You are awesome in Your sanctuary; the God of Israel Himself gives strength and power to His people. Blessed be God! Isaiah 66:13 As a mother comforts her son, so will I comfort you, and you will be consoled over Jerusalem." Romans 15:5 Now may the God who gives endurance and encouragement grant you harmony with one another in Christ Jesus, 2 Corinthians 7:6 But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the arrival of Titus, Ephesians 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms. Colossians 1:3 We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, 1 Peter 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, Treasury of Scripture Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; Blessed. Genesis 14:20 And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all. 1 Chronicles 29:10 Wherefore David blessed the LORD before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed be thou, LORD God of Israel our father, for ever and ever. Nehemiah 9:5 Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless the LORD your God for ever and ever: and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise. the Father of our. 2 Corinthians 11:31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not. John 5:22,23 For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: … John 10:30 I and my Father are one. the Father of mercies. Psalm 86:5,15 For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee… Daniel 9:9 To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him; Micah 7:18 Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy. the God. Romans 15:5 Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus: Jump to Previous Blessed Christ Comfort Compassion Compassions Consolation Encouragement Full Gives Heartfelt Jesus Mercies Praise ThanksJump to Next Blessed Christ Comfort Compassion Compassions Consolation Encouragement Full Gives Heartfelt Jesus Mercies Praise Thanks2 Corinthians 1 1. Paul salutes the Corinthians;3. he encourages them against troubles, 5. by the comforts and deliverances which God had given him, 8. so particularly in his late danger in Asia. 12. And calling both his own conscience and theirs, 15. he excuses his not coming to them, as proceeding not of lightness, 23. but of his care for them. (3) Blessed be God . . . the Father of mercies.--The opening words are spoken out of the fulness of the Apostle's heart. He has had a comfort which he recognises as having come from God. The nature of that comfort, as of the previous sorrow, is hardly stated definitely till we come to 2Corinthians 2:13; 2Corinthians 7:6-7. At present the memory of it leads him to something like a doxology, as being the utterance of a more exulting joy than a simple thanksgiving, such as we find in 1Corinthians 1:4; Philippians 1:3; Colossians 1:3. The same formula meets us in Ephesians 1:3, where also it expresses a jubilant adoration. Two special names of God are added under the influence of the same feeling. He is "the Father of mercies," the genitive being possibly a Hebraism, used in place of the cognate adjective; in which case it is identical with "God, the merciful Father," in Jewish prayers, or with the ever-recurring formula of the Koran, "Allah, the compassionate, the merciful." It seems better, however, to take the words more literally, as stating that God is the originator of all mercies, the source from which they flow. So we have the "Father of lights" in James 1:17. The precise phrase does not occur elsewhere in the New Testament; but we have the same noun in "the mercies of God" in Romans 12:1. . . . Verse 3. - Blessed be God (Ephesians 1:3). This outburst of thanksgiving was meant to repress the relief brought to the overcharged feelings of the apostle by the arrival of Titus, with news respecting the mixed, but on the whole good, effect produced at Corinth by the severe remarks of his first letter. It is characteristic of the intense and impetuous rush of emotion which we often notice in the letters of St. Paul, that he does not here state the special grounds for this impassioned thanksgiving; he only touches upon it for a moment in 2 Corinthians 2:13, and does not pause to state it fully until 2 Corinthians 7:5-16. It is further remarkable that in this Epistle almost alone he utters no thanksgiving for the moral growth and holiness of the Church to which he is writing. This may be due to the fact that there was still so much to blame; but it more probably arose from the tumult of feeling which throughout this letter disturbs the regular flow of his thoughts. The ordinary "thanksgiving" for his readers is practically, though indirectly, involved in the gratitude which he expresses to God for the sympathy and communion which exists between himself and the Church of Corinth. Even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Greek is the same as in Ephesians 1:3, where, literally rendered, it is, "Blessed be the God and Father." The same phrase is found also in 1 Peter 1:3; Colossians 1:3. The meaning is not, "Blessed be the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ" (although the expression, "the God of our Lord Jesus Christ," occurs in Ephesians 1:17: comp. John 20:17), but "Blessed be God, who is also the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ," and who is therefore "our Father" by adoption and redemption, as well as our God by creation. The Father of mercies. This corresponds to a Hebrew expression, and means that compassionateness is the most characteristic attribute of God, and emanation from him. He is the Source of all mercy; and mercy "Is an attribute of God himself." He is "full of compassion, and gracious, tong-suffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth" (Psalm 86:15). "The Law," says the Talmud, "begins and ends with an act of mercy. At its commencement God clothes the naked; at its close be buries the dead" ('Sotah,' f. 14, 1). Thus every chapter but one of the Koran is headed, "In the name of God the Compassionate, the Merciful;" and it is an Eastern expression to say of one that has died that. "he is taken to the mercy of the Merciful." Comp. "Father of glory," Ephesians 1:17; 1 Corinthians 2:8 ("of spirits," Hebrews 12:9; "of lights," James 1:17). The plural, "compassions," is perhaps a plural of excellence, "exceeding compassion" (Romans 12:1), and may be influenced by the Hebrew word rachamim, often literally rendered by St. Paul "bowels." The article in the Greek ("the Father of the compassions") specializes the mercy. The God of all comfort. So in 2 Corinthians 13:11 God is called "the God of love and peace;" Romans 15:5, "the God of patience and of comfort;" 2:15, "the God of hope." This word "comfort" (unfortunately interchanged with "consolation" in the Authorized Version) and the word "affliction" (varyingly rendered by "trouble" and "tribulation" in the Authorized Version), are the keynotes of this passage; and to some extent of the whole Epistle. St. Paul is haunted as it were and possessed by them. "Comfort," as verb or substantive, occurs ten times in vers. 3-7; and "affliction" occurs four times in succession. It is characteristic of St. Paul's style to be thus dominated, as it were, by a single word (comp. notes on 2 Corinthians 3:2, 13; 4:2; see note on 2 Corinthians 10:8). The needless variations of the Authorized Version were well intentioned, but arose from a false notion of style, a deficient sense of the precision of special words, and an inadequate conception of the duties of faithful translation, which requires that we should as exactly as possible reflect the peculiarities of the original, and not attempt to improve upon them. Greek Blessed [be]Εὐλογητὸς (Eulogētos) Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular Strong's 2128: (used only of God), blessed (as entitled to receive blessing from man), worthy of praise. From eulogeo; adorable. the ὁ (ho) Article - Nominative Masculine Singular Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. God Θεὸς (Theos) Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular Strong's 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very. and καὶ (kai) Conjunction Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely. Father Πατὴρ (Patēr) Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular Strong's 3962: Father, (Heavenly) Father, ancestor, elder, senior. Apparently a primary word; a 'father'. of our ἡμῶν (hēmōn) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 1st Person Plural Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I. Lord Κυρίου (Kyriou) Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular Strong's 2962: Lord, master, sir; the Lord. From kuros; supreme in authority, i.e. controller; by implication, Master. Jesus Ἰησοῦ (Iēsou) Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular Strong's 2424: Of Hebrew origin; Jesus, the name of our Lord and two other Israelites. Christ, Χριστοῦ (Christou) Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular Strong's 5547: Anointed One; the Messiah, the Christ. From chrio; Anointed One, i.e. The Messiah, an epithet of Jesus. the ὁ (ho) Article - Nominative Masculine Singular Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. Father Πατὴρ (Patēr) Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular Strong's 3962: Father, (Heavenly) Father, ancestor, elder, senior. Apparently a primary word; a 'father'. of compassion οἰκτιρμῶν (oiktirmōn) Noun - Genitive Masculine Plural Strong's 3628: Pity, compassion, favor, grace, mercy. From oikteiro; pity. and καὶ (kai) Conjunction Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely. [the] God Θεὸς (Theos) Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular Strong's 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very. of all πάσης (pasēs) Adjective - Genitive Feminine Singular Strong's 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole. comfort, παρακλήσεως (paraklēseōs) Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular Strong's 3874: From parakaleo; imploration, hortation, solace. Links 2 Corinthians 1:3 NIV2 Corinthians 1:3 NLT 2 Corinthians 1:3 ESV 2 Corinthians 1:3 NASB 2 Corinthians 1:3 KJV 2 Corinthians 1:3 BibleApps.com 2 Corinthians 1:3 Biblia Paralela 2 Corinthians 1:3 Chinese Bible 2 Corinthians 1:3 French Bible 2 Corinthians 1:3 Catholic Bible NT Letters: 2 Corinthians 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father (2 Cor. 2C iiC 2Cor ii cor iicor) |
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