⁸ 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. 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, 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, ¹¹ while^[b] you also join in helping on our behalf^[c] by prayer, so that thanks may be given on our behalf^[d] by many persons for this gracious gift given to us through the help of many.