4. He comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction, through the comfort we ourselves receive from God.
5. For as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, so through Christ our comfort also overflows.
6. If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which is experienced in your endurance of the same sufferings that we suffer.
7. And our hope for you is firm, because we know that as you share in the sufferings, so you will share in the comfort.
8. For we don’t want you to be unaware, brothers, of our affliction that took place in Asia: we were completely overwhelmed — beyond our strength — so that we even despaired of life.
9. Indeed, we personally had a death sentence within ourselves, so that we would not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.