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

³ Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all encouragement, ⁴ who encourages us in all our affliction, in order for us to be able to encourage those in every affliction, through the encouragement of which we ourselves are encouraged by God. ⁵ Because, as the sufferings of the Christ abound to us, so also our encouragement abounds through the Christ. ⁶ But whether we are oppressed, it is for your encouragement and salvation, which works by endurance from the same sufferings that we also experience (and our hope for you is steadfast), or we are encouraged, it is for your encourage ⁷ knowing that, as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also of the encouragement.

⁸ For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about our affliction that happened to us in Asia, because we were extraordinarily weighed down, above strength, so as for us to despair even to be alive. ⁹ But we ourselves have had the sentence of death in ourselves, so that we should not be trusting in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead. ¹⁰ Who rescued us out of so great a death, and does rescue, in whom we have hoped that he will also still rescue. ¹¹ And of you who help together by supplication for us (a gift for us from many persons, because of many), so that there may be gratitude about you.