1 Corinthians 15:19
If for this life only we Christians have set our hopes on Christ, we are the most pitiable people in the world.
2 Corinthians 1:8-10
For I do not want you to be uninformed about the sorrow that I suffered in Asia, because I was so crushed beyond any power to endure that I was in dire despair of life itself.
1 Thessalonians 3:3-4
so that none of you might be deceived amid these difficulties. For you knew yourselves that this is our appointed lot,
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