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.
10. He who rescued us from so great a danger of death will continue to rescue us—we have set our hope on Him that He will rescue us again.
11. You also are helping by your prayer for us, so that from many people thanks may be given on our behalf for the gracious gift given us through the help of many.