2. Grace to you and shalom from God our Father and the Lord Yeshua the Messiah.
3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, the Father of compassion and God of all encouragement.
4. He encourages us in every trouble, so that we may be able to encourage those who are in any trouble, through the very encouragement with which we ourselves are encouraged by God.
5. For just as the sufferings of Messiah overflow into us, so also through Messiah our encouragement overflows.
6. If we are suffering hardship, it is for your encouragement and salvation. Or if we are encouraged, it is for your encouragement, which produces in you the patient endurance of the same sufferings that we also suffer.
7. Our hope for you is firm, since we know that as you are partners in our sufferings, so also in our encouragement.
8. For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, of our trouble that happened in Asia. We were under great pressure—so far beyond our strength that we despaired even of living.
9. In fact, we had within ourselves the death sentence—so that we might not rely on ourselves, but on God who raises the dead.