³Blessed be^g the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies^h and the God of all comfort.ⁱ ⁴He comforts us in all our affliction,^B so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction, through the comfort we ourselves receive from God. ⁵For just as the sufferings^j of Christ^k overflow to us, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.^l ⁶If we are afflicted,^m it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings that we suffer.ⁿ ⁷And our hope^o for you is firm, because we know that as you share^p in the sufferings, so you will also share in the comfort.

⁸We don’t want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, of our affliction that took place in Asia.^q We were completely overwhelmed—beyond our strength^r—so that we even despaired^s of life itself. ⁹Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death, so that we would not trust in ourselves but in God^t who raises^u the dead. ¹⁰He has delivered^v us from such a terrible death,^w and he will deliver us. We have put our hope in him that he will deliver us again ¹¹while you join in helping us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our^C behalf for the gift that came to us through the prayers of many.

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Footnotes

BOr trouble, or tribulation, or trials, or oppression
COther read your

Cross references

g Mk 14:61
h Heb 10:28
i Lk 2:25
j Gl 5:24; Php 3:10
k Rm 8:17; 2Co 4:10; Gl 6:17; Php 3:10; Col 1:24
l Php 1:29
m Heb 11:37
n Php 1:29
o 1Th 1:3
p Phm 17
q Ac 6:9
r Ac 8:10; 1Co 15:24; Eph 1:21; 1Pt 3:22
s 2Co 4:8
t Ps 25:2; 26:1; Jr 17:5–7; Lk 18:9
u Mk 9:27; Jn 2:19
v Mt 27:43
w Mt 10:21; Jn 8:51; Php 3:10