But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort that is at work in the patient endurance of the same sufferings that we also suffer. And our hope for you is firm, because we[a] know that as you are sharers in the sufferings, so also you will be sharers in the comfort.

For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning our affliction that happened in the province of Asia,[b] that we were burdened to an extraordinary degree, beyond our strength, so that we were in despair even of living.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 1:7 Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“is”) which is understood as causal
  2. 2 Corinthians 1:8 A reference to the Roman province of Asia (modern Asia Minor)