弟兄姊妹,希望你們知道我們在亞細亞所遭遇的苦難。那時我們承受極大的壓力,超過了我們的極限,甚至連活命的指望都沒了。 我們心裡覺得必死無疑,這使我們不倚靠自己,只倚靠使死人復活的上帝。 10 祂曾救我們脫離死亡的威脅,將來還要救我們。我們深信祂必繼續救我們。

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For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:

But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:

10 Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;

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Brothers and sisters, we want you to know about the hard times we had in Asia Minor. We were having a lot of trouble. It was far more than we could stand. We even thought we were going to die. In fact, we felt as if we were under the sentence of death. But that happened so that we would not depend on ourselves but on God. He raises the dead to life. 10 God has saved us from deadly dangers. And he will continue to do it. We have put our hope in him. He will continue to save us.

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