For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning our affliction that happened in the province of Asia,[a] that we were burdened to an extraordinary degree, beyond our strength, so that we were in despair even of living. 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, 10 who delivered us from so great a risk of death, and will deliver us, in whom we have put our hope that he will also deliver us again,

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 1:8 A reference to the Roman province of Asia (modern Asia Minor)