5. That is because we receive so much comfort through Christ in the same way that we share so many of Christ’s sufferings.
6. So if we have trouble, it is to bring you comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is to bring you comfort from the experience of endurance while you go through the same sufferings that we also suffer.
7. Our hope for you is certain, because we know that as you are partners in suffering, so also you are partners in comfort.
8. Brothers and sisters, we don’t want you to be unaware of the troubles that we went through in Asia. We were weighed down with a load of suffering that was so far beyond our strength that we were afraid we might not survive.
9. It certainly seemed to us as if we had gotten the death penalty. This was so that we would have confidence in God, who raises the dead, instead of ourselves.
10. God rescued us from a terrible death, and he will rescue us. We have set our hope on him that he will rescue us again,