2 Corinthians 1:7-9

Lexham English Bible

⁷ And our hope for you is firm, because we^[a] know that as you are sharers in the sufferings, so also you will be sharers in the comfort.

⁸ For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning our affliction that happened in the province of Asia,^[b] that we were burdened to an extraordinary degree, beyond our strength, so that we were in despair even of living. ⁹ But we ourselves had the sentence of death in ourselves, so that we would not be putting confidence in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,