2 Corinthians 1:6-8

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁶ If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer. ⁷ Our hope for you is unshaken; for we know that as you share in our sufferings, you will also share in our comfort.

⁸ For we do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, of the affliction^[a] we experienced in Asia; for we were so utterly, unbearably crushed that we despaired of life itself.