2 Corinthians 1:1

2 Corinthians 1:1. Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God,-

Paul is very careful to remind the Corinthians of that fact, since some of them had gone the length of denying his apostleship altogether.

2 Corinthians 1:1. And Timothy our brother,-

Whom, in all humility, he associates with himself, although he was a younger man, of far less consequence; but Paul loved him very much, and therefore he put his name at the beginning of this Epistle side by side with his own: "and Timothy our brother,"