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And our hope is steadfast concerning you, because we know that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so shall you also be of the consolation.

For brothers, we would not have you be ignorant of our affliction, which came to us in Asia; how we were pressed beyond measure, passing strength, so that we utterly despaired, even of life.

But, we received the sentence of death in ourselves, because we should not rest in ourselves, but in God, Who raised the dead.

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And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings,(A) so also you share in our comfort.

We do not want you to be uninformed,(B) brothers and sisters,[a] about the troubles we experienced(C) in the province of Asia.(D) We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God,(E) who raises the dead.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 1:8 The Greek word for brothers and sisters (adelphoi) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God’s family; also in 8:1; 13:11.