2 Corinthians 1:3-11 - Thanksgiving For God's Compassion And Comfort
3 Blessed be the God and lather of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those in every affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God, 5 because as Christ's sufferings abound in us, so also through Christ does our comfort abound. 6 And if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation, wrought by a patient endurance the same sufferings which we also suffer, and our hope for you is strong; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort and salvation, 7 knowing that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so you are also of the comfort.
8 For we wish you not to be ignorant, brothers, of our affliction which befell us in Asia, that we were exceedingly oppressed beyond our power, so that we despaired even of life; 9 but we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we might not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead, 10 who delivered us from so great a death and will deliver, in whom we hope that he will also still deliver, 11 you also striving together for us in prayer, that thanks may be rendered for us by many persons for the gift bestowed on us by many.