^{5 Ref} For as the sufferings of Christ abound unto us, even so our comfort also aboundeth through Christ.

^{6 Ref} But 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:

^{7 Ref} and our hope for you is stedfast; knowing that, as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also are ye of the comfort.

^{8 Ref} 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: