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

^{6 Ref} But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.

^{7 Ref} Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so also are you of the comfort.

^{8 Ref} For we don't desire to have you uninformed, brothers,{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} 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.