2 Corinthians 1:3
Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all encouragement,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
2Grace to you and peace from God our Father and Lord Jesus Christ.
Cross References
Genesis 14:20And blessed be God Most High, who has delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And [Abram] gave him a tenth of all.
Nehemiah 9:5Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, [and] Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless LORD your God from everlasting to everlasting. And blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted abo
Psalms 18:46LORD lives, and blessed be my rock, and exalted be the God of my salvation,
Psalms 86:5For thou, LORD, are good, and ready to forgive, and abundant in loving kindness to all those who call upon thee.
Daniel 4:34And at the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me. And I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever. For his dominion is an everlasting domini
Micah 7:18Who is a God like to thee, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.
Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 1:2-3
Second Corinthians In his former epistle the apostle had signified his intentions of coming to Corinth, as he passed through Macedonia ( xvi. 5 ), but, being providentially hindered for some time, he writes this second epistle to them about a year after the former; and there seem to be these two urgent occasions:—1. The case of the incestuous person, who lay under censure, required that with all speed he should be restored and received again into communion. This therefore he gives directions about ( ch. ii. ), and… Read the whole commentary →