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.
10. He has delivered us from such a terrible death, and He will deliver us. We have put our hope in Him that He will deliver us again
11. while you join in helping us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the gift that came to us through the prayers of many.
12. For this is our confidence: The testimony of our conscience is that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, with God-given sincerity and purity, not by fleshly wisdom but by God’s grace.
13. Now we are writing nothing to you other than what you can read and also understand. I hope you will understand completely —
14. as you have partially understood us — that we are your reason for pride, as you are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.