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And our hope for you is firm[a], knowing that as you are sharers of the sufferings, so also of the comfort.

For We Despaired Even of Living, But God Delivered Us, And Will Deliver Us

For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers, with-reference-to our affliction having taken place in Asia[b], that we were burdened[c] extremely beyond our power, so that we despaired[d] even of living. But we had[e] the sentence of death in ourselves in order that we should not be trusting in ourselves, but in God, the One raising the dead,

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 1:7 Or, secure.
  2. 2 Corinthians 1:8 That is, in Ephesus after 1 Cor 16:8-9.
  3. 2 Corinthians 1:8 Or, weighed down.
  4. 2 Corinthians 1:8 Or, were utterly at a loss. That is, they could not see how they would survive the danger facing them.
  5. 2 Corinthians 1:9 The grammar implies it was true then and continues to be true now.

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