3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in 1:4 Lit everyany affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 5 For just as the sufferings of Christ are 1:5 Lit to usours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ. 6 But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which is effective in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer; 7 and our hope for you is firmly grounded, knowing that as you are partners in our sufferings, so also you are in our comfort.
8 For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, of our affliction which occurred in 1:8 I.e., west coast province of Asia MinorAsia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life. 9 1:9 Lit But we ourselvesIndeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead, 10 who rescued us from so great a danger of death, and will rescue us, He 1:10 One early ms on whom we have set our hope that He will alsoon whom we have set our hope. And He will yet deliver us,