1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the church of God that is in Corinth, together with all the saints who are in all Achaia. ²Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Thanksgiving for God’s Compassion and Comfort

³Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, ⁴who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in all affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. ⁵For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, thus through Christ our comfort overflows also. ⁶But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort that is at work in the patient endurance of the same sufferings that we also suffer. ⁷And our hope for you is firm, because we^* know that as you are sharers in the sufferings, so also you will be sharers in the comfort.

⁸For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning our affliction that happened in the province of Asia,^a that we were burdened to an extraordinary degree, beyond our strength, so that we were in despair even of living.

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Footnotes

*Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“is”) which is understood as causal
aA reference to the Roman province of Asia (modern Asia Minor)