2 Corinthians 1:8
6 If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which accomplishes in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we experience.
7 And our hope for you is sure, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you will share in our comfort.
We do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the hardships we encountered in the province of Asia. We were under a burden far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life.
9 Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead.
10 He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and He will deliver us. In Him we have placed our hope that He will yet again deliver us,
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- We do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the hardships we encountered in the province of Asia. We were under a burden far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life.
- KJV
- For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:
- WEB
- For we don’t desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia: that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.
- ASV
- For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning our affliction which befell [us] in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, insomuch that we despaired even of life:
- DARBY
- 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.
- BLB
- For we do not want you⁺ to be ignorant brothers, as to our tribulation having happened in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond [our] power, so as for us to despair even to live.
- ÅB
- For vi vil ikke, brødre, at dere skal være uvitende om at den trengsel som kom over oss i Asia, var overmåte tung, mere enn vi kunne bære, så vi endog mistvilte om livet;
- OTB
- For vi vil ikke, brødre og søstre, at dere skal være uvitende om den trengsel vi opplevde i Asia, hvor vi ble overmåte tynget utover vår evne, så vi endog mistet håpet om å beholde livet.
- B1930
- For vi vil ikke, brødre, at I skal være uvitende om at den trengsel som kom over oss i Asia, var overmåte tung, mere enn vi kunde bære, så vi endog mistvilte om livet;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
2 Corinthians 4:7–12
Now we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this surpassingly great power is from God and not from us.
Read in context1 Corinthians 4:8
Already you have all you want. Already you have become rich. Without us, you have become kings. How I wish you really were kings, so that we might be kings with you!
Read in context1 Corinthians 15:32
If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for human motives, what did I gain? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”
Read in context1 Corinthians 16:9
because a great door for effective work has opened to me, even though many oppose me.
Read in contextActs 19:23–35
About that time there arose a great disturbance about the Way.
Read in context1 Samuel 27:1
David, however, said to himself, “One of these days now I will be swept away by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will stop searching for me all over Israel, and I will slip out of his hand.”
Read in context1 Samuel 20:3
But David again vowed, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said, ‘Jonathan must not know of this, or he will be grieved.’ As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, there is but a step between me and death.”
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