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

³ Blessed be the God, and father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the father of mercies, and the God of all consolation: ⁴ who comforteth me in all my tribulations, that I may be able to comfort them who are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith I myself am comforted of God. ⁵ for as I have greatly suffered for Christ, so I have been greatly comforted thro' Christ. ⁶ but whether I am afflicted, it is for your consolation and relief, which is effected by your perseverance, patiently enduring the same sufferings which I also undergo: or whether I am comforted, it is for your consolation and relief. ⁷ and the hopes I had of you continue still the same, knowing that as you have had your share of suffering, so you will likewise have of consolation.

⁸ For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant of that insupportable weight of affliction that over-whelm'd me so in Asia that I despaired even of life: ⁹ nay, I abandon'd my self to death, that I might not rely upon my self for deliverance, but on God who raiseth the dead. ¹⁰ and he did deliver me from so terrible a death, and on him I have relied for further deliverance: especially, ¹¹ being assisted by your prayers for me, so that thanks may be returned by many, for the gracious deliverance procur'd me by their prayers.