Passage
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 1:2 (LSB)
Nearby Context
2 Corinthians 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God which is at Corinth with all the saints who are throughout Achaia:
2 Corinthians 1:2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
2 Corinthians 1:4 who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
Study Lenses
The verse centers on "grace", "peace", "father", "lord", "jesus", and "christ". It is saying that salvation is received as God's gift through faith, so boasting is pushed out by the wording itself.
The nearby context moves from verse 1's "Paul an apostle of Christ Jesus by..." into verse 3's "Blessed be the God and Father of...", so "grace" and "peace" belong inside that flow. In 2 Corinthians context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.
A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "grace" and "peace" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.