³^fBlessed be the ^gGod and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and ^hGod of all comfort, ⁴ⁱwho comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. ⁵For as we share abundantly in ^jChrist’s sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.¹ ⁶^kIf we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer. ⁷Our hope for you is unshaken, for we know that as you ^lshare in our sufferings, you will also share in our comfort.

⁸For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers,² of ^mthe affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself. ⁹Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us ⁿrely not on ourselves ^obut on God ^pwho raises the dead. ¹⁰^qHe delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. ^rOn him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again. ¹¹^sYou also must help us by prayer, so that many will give thanks on our behalf ^tfor the blessing granted us through the prayers of many.

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Footnotes

1Or For as the sufferings of Christ abound for us, so also our comfort abounds through Christ
2Or brothers and sisters. In New Testament usage, depending on the context, the plural Greek word adelphoi (translated “brothers”) may refer either to brothers or to brothers and sisters

Cross references

f Eph. 1:3; 1 Pet. 1:3
gSee Rom. 15:6
h Rom. 15:5
i[Isa. 51:12; 66:13]
j[ch. 4:10; Phil. 3:10; Col. 1:24]
k 2 Tim. 2:10; [ch. 4:15; 12:15; Eph. 3:13]
lSee Rom. 8:17
m Acts 19:23; 1 Cor. 15:32
n Luke 18:9
o Ps. 2:12; 25:2; 26:1
pch. 4:14
qSee Rom. 15:31
r 1 Tim. 4:10
s[Acts 12:5; Rom. 15:30; Phil. 1:19; Philem. 22]
t[ch. 4:15; 9:11, 12]