2Corinthians:1:3-11

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web @2Corinthians:1:3 @Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ , the Father of mercies and God of all comfort ; web @2Corinthians:1:4 @who comforts us in all our affliction , that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction , through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God . web @2Corinthians:1:5 @For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us , even so our comfort also abounds through Christ . web @2Corinthians:1:6 @But if we are afflicted , it is for your comfort and salvation . If we are comforted , it is for your comfort , which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer . web @2Corinthians:1:7 @Our hope for you is steadfast , knowing that , since you are partakers of the sufferings , so also are you of the comfort . web @2Corinthians:1:8 @For we don 't desire to have you uninformed , brothers , {The word for "brothers " here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters " or "siblings ."} concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia , that we were weighed down exceedingly , beyond our power , so much that we despaired even of life . web @2Corinthians:1:9 @Yes , we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves , that we should not trust in ourselves , but in God who raises the dead , web @2Corinthians:1:10 @who delivered us out of so great a death , and does deliver ; on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us ; web @2Corinthians:1:11 @you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication ; that , for the gift bestowed on us by means of many , thanks may be given by many persons on your behalf .

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