2 Corinthians 1:3-11

3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort.

4He comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction, through the comfort we ourselves receive from God.

5For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.

6If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings that we suffer.

7And our hope for you is firm, because we know that as you share in the sufferings, so you will also share in the comfort.

8We don’t want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, of our affliction that took place in Asia. We were completely overwhelmed — beyond our strength  — so that we even despaired of life itself.

9Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death, so that we would not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.

10He has delivered us from such a terrible death, and he will deliver us. We have put our hope in him that he will deliver us again

11while you join in helping us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the gift that came to us through the prayers of many.