New American Standard Bible 2020

2 Corinthians 1:4-9

4who 1comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in 2any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 5For just 3as the sufferings of Christ are 4ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ. 6But if we are afflicted, it is 5for your comfort and salvation; or if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which is effective in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer; 7and our hope for you is firmly grounded, knowing that 6as you are partners in our sufferings, so also you are in our comfort.

8For 7we do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, of our 8affliction which occurred in 9 10Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life. 9 11Indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

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Notes

1. 2 Corinthians 1:4 Is 51:12; 66:13; 2 Cor 7:6, 7, 13 ↩
2. 2 Corinthians 1:4 Lit every ↩
3. 2 Corinthians 1:5 2 Cor 4:10; Phil 3:10; Col 1:24 ↩
4. 2 Corinthians 1:5 Lit to us ↩
5. 2 Corinthians 1:6 2 Cor 4:15; 12:15; Eph 3:1, 13; 2 Tim 2:10 ↩
6. 2 Corinthians 1:7 Rom 8:17 ↩
7. 2 Corinthians 1:8 Rom 1:13 ↩
8. 2 Corinthians 1:8 Acts 19:23; 1 Cor 15:32 ↩
9. 2 Corinthians 1:8 I.e., west coast province of Asia Minor ↩
10. 2 Corinthians 1:8 Acts 16:6 ↩
11. 2 Corinthians 1:9 Lit But we ourselves ↩

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