6. and whether we be in tribulation, [it is] for your comfort and salvation, that is wrought in the enduring of the same sufferings that we also suffer; whether we are comforted, [it is] for your comfort and salvation;
7. and our hope [is] stedfast for you, knowing that even as ye are partakers of the sufferings--so also of the comfort.
8. For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation that happened to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly burdened above [our] power, so that we despaired even of life;
9. but we ourselves in ourselves the sentence of the death have had, that we may not be trusting on ourselves, but on God, who is raising the dead,
10. who out of so great a death did deliver us, and doth deliver, in whom we have hoped that even yet He will deliver;
11. ye working together also for us by your supplication, that the gift through many persons to us, through many may be thankfully acknowledged for us.
12. For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we did conduct ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;
13. for no other things do we write to you, but what ye either do read or also acknowledge, and I hope that also unto the end ye shall acknowledge,
14. according as also ye did acknowledge us in part, that your glory we are, even as also ye [are] ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus;
15. and in this confidence I was purposing to come unto you before, that a second favour ye might have,
16. and through you to pass to Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come unto you, and by you to be sent forward to Judea.