7. And our hope for you is firm, because we know that as you are sharers in the sufferings, so also you will be sharers in the comfort.
8. For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning our affliction that happened in the province of Asia, that we were burdened to an extraordinary degree, beyond our strength, so that we were in despair even of living.
9. But we ourselves had the sentence of death in ourselves, so that we would not be putting confidence in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,
10. who delivered us from so great a risk of death, and will deliver us, in whom we have put our hope that he will also deliver us again,
11. while you also join in helping on our behalf by prayer, so that thanks may be given on our behalf by many persons for this gracious gift given to us through the help of many.
12. For our reason for boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, in holiness and purity of motive from God, not in merely human wisdom, but by the grace of God.
13. For we are not writing anything else to you except what you can read or also understand. But I hope that you will understand completely,