2 Corinthians 1:3-11 - Thanksgiving For God's Compassion And Comfort

³ Thanks be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of tender mercies and the God of all comfort, ⁴ who ever comforts me in all my troubles, so that I may be continually able to comfort those who are in any trouble by the comfort with which God is ever comforting me. ⁵ For just as I have more than my share in the sufferings of the Christ, so also through the Christ I have more than my share of comfort. ⁶ If I am afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if I am receiving comfort, it is for your comfort?? comfort produced within you by your patient fortitude, under the same sufferings which I also am enduring. ⁷ My hope for you is firm; for I know that as you are comrades in my sufferings, so also are you comrades in my comfort.

⁸ Now, brothers, I want you to know about the troubles which befell me in Asia; how I was burdened altogether beyond my strength, so that I renounced all hope even of life itself. ⁹ Indeed, I had in myself, and still have, the sentence of death, in order that I might not rely on myself, but on God who raises the dead to life. ¹⁰ He delivered me from such a death, and will deliver me. On him I have set my hopes that he will continue to deliver me, ¹¹ while all of you also are helping me by your prayers; so that from many lips thanksgiving may rise on my behalf for the blessings vouchsafed to me through the intercessions of many.