Sinai2 Corinthians 1:8
American Standard Version
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:
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2 Corinthians 1:8 in other translations
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.
2 Corinthians 1:8 in context
- 6But whether we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or whether we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which worketh in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer:
- 7and our hope for you is stedfast; knowing that, as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also are ye of the comfort.
- 8For 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:
- 9yea, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead:
- 10who delivered us out of so great a death, and will deliver: on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;