The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your
consolation and salvation.
CO2 1:7 And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are
partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.
CO2 1:8 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:
CO2 1:9 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should
not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:
CO2 1:10 Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in
whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;
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