Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort: 4Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we also may be able to comfort them who are in all distress, by the exhortation wherewith we also are exhorted by God. 5For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us: so also by Christ doth our comfort abound. 6Now whether we be in tribulation, it is for your exhortation and salvation: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation: or whether we be exhorted, it is for your exhortation and salvation, which worketh the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer. 7That our hope for you may be steadfast: knowing that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so shall you be also of the consolation. 8For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation which came to us in Asia: that we were pressed out of measure above our strength, so that we were weary even of life. 9But we had in ourselves the answer of death, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead. 10Who hath delivered and doth deliver us out of so great dangers: in whom we trust that he will yet also deliver us, 11You helping withal in prayer for us. That for this gift obtained for us, by the means of many persons, thanks may be given by many in our behalf.