2 Corinthians 1:8-9

New American Standard Bible 1995

⁸ For ^(A)we do not want you to be unaware, brethren, of our ^(B)affliction which came to us in ^[a](C)Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life; ^9 [b]indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead;