2 Corinthians 1:7-9

21st Century King James Version

⁷ And our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.

⁸ For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, of our trouble which came to us in Asia: that we were pressed beyond measure, beyond strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life.

⁹ But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raiseth the dead,