But if we are afflicted, it is (A)for 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; and our hope for you is firmly grounded, knowing that (B)as you are sharers of our sufferings, so also you are sharers of our comfort.

For (C)we do not want you to be unaware, brethren, of our (D)affliction which came to us in [a](E)Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life;

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 1:8 I.e. west coast province of Asia Minor