Study Desk

^(C1)Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and ^(C2)God of all comfort,

who ^(C1)comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in ^(F1)any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

For just ^(C1)as the sufferings of Christ are ^(F1)ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ.

But if we are afflicted, it is ^(C1)for your comfort and salvation; or if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which is effective in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer;

and our hope for you is firmly grounded, knowing that ^(C1)as you are partners in our sufferings, so also you are in our comfort.

For ^(C1)we do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, of our ^(C2)affliction which occurred in ^(F1)(C3)Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life.

^(F1)Indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

who ^(C1)rescued us from so great a danger of death, and will rescue us, He ^(F1)(C2)on whom we have set our hope. And He will yet deliver us,

if you also join in ^(C1)helping us through your prayers, so that thanks may be given by ^(C2)many persons in our behalf for the favor granted to us through the prayers of many.