5. Because, even as the sufferings of the Christ abound towards us, so through the Christ does our encouragement also abound.
6. But whether we are in tribulation, it is for your encouragement and salvation, wrought in the endurance of the same sufferings which we also suffer,
7. (and our hope for you is sure;) or whether we are encouraged, it is for your encouragement and salvation: knowing that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also of the encouragement.
8. For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, as to our tribulation which happened to us in Asia, that we were excessively pressed beyond our power, so as to despair even of living.
9. But we ourselves had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not have our trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead;
10. who has delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver; in whom we confide that he will also yet deliver;
11. ye also labouring together by supplication for us that the gift towards us, through means of many persons, may be the subject of the thanksgiving of many for us.
12. For our boasting is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity before God, (not in fleshly wisdom but in God's grace,) we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly towards you.
13. For we do not write other things to you but what ye well know and recognise; and I hope that ye will recognise to the end,
14. even as also ye have recognised us in part, that we are your boast, even as ye are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.
15. And with this confidence I purposed to come to you previously, that ye might have a second favour;
16. and to pass through to Macedonia by you, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be set forward by you to Judaea.