2 Corinthians 1:1–8

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

³Blessed is God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the mercies, and God of all comfort, ⁴who is comforting us in all our tribulation, for our being able to comfort those in any tribulation through the comfort with which we are comforted ourselves by God; ⁵because, as the sufferings of the Christ do abound to us, so through the Christ doth abound also our comfort; ⁶and whether we be in tribulation, it is for your comfort and salvation, that is wrought in the enduring of the same sufferings that we also suffer; whether we are comforted, it is for your comfort and salvation.

⁷And our hope is stedfast for you, knowing that even as ye are partakers of the sufferings—so also of the comfort. ⁸For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation that happened to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly burdened above our power, so that we despaired even of life;