[2] Grace and peace from God Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. [3] Blessed be God, even the Father Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; [4] Who comforteth in all tribulation, that may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith ourselves are comforted of God. [5] For as the sufferings of Christ abound in so consolation also aboundeth by Christ. [6] And whether we be afflicted, it is for consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for consolation and salvation. [7] And hope of is stedfast, knowing, that partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation. [8] For we would not, brethren, ignorant of trouble which came in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch despaired even of life: [9] But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: [10] Who delivered from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that yet deliver [11] also helping together by prayer for that for the gift bestowed upon by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many