2 Corinthians 1:4-10

4who comforts us in all our troubles so that we may be able to comfort those experiencing any trouble with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

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

6But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort that you experience in your patient endurance of the same sufferings that we also suffer.

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

8For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, regarding the affliction that happened to us in the province of Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of living.

9Indeed we felt as if the sentence of death had been passed against us, so that we would not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.

10He delivered us from so great a risk of death, and he will deliver us. We have set our hope on him that he will deliver us yet again,