(A)If 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. Our hope for you is unshaken, for we know that as you (B)share in our sufferings, you will also share in our comfort.

For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers,[a] of (C)the affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 1:8 Or 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

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