2 Corinthians 1:7-9

New American Standard Bible

⁷ and our hope for you is firmly grounded, knowing that ^(A)as you are partners in our sufferings, so also you are in our comfort.

⁸ For ^(B)we do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, of our ^(C)affliction which occurred in ^[a](D)Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life. ^9 [b]Indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,