^3 (A)Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and ^(B)God of all comfort, ⁴ who ^(C)comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in ^[a]any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. ⁵ For just ^(D)as the sufferings of Christ are ^[b]ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ. ⁶ But if we are afflicted, it is ^(E)for your comfort and salvation; or if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which is effective in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer; ⁷ and our hope for you is firmly grounded, knowing that ^(F)as you are sharers of our sufferings, so also you are sharers of our comfort.

⁸ For ^(G)we do not want you to be unaware, brethren, of our ^(H)affliction which came to us in ^[c](I)Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life; ^9 [d]indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead; ¹⁰ who ^(J)delivered us from so great a peril of death, and will deliver us, ^[e]He ^(K)on whom we have set our hope. And He will yet deliver us, ¹¹ you also joining in ^(L)helping us through your prayers, so that thanks may be given by ^(M)many persons on our behalf for the favor bestowed on us through the prayers of many.