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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CO.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CO.1.1"><span class="content">To the church of God in Corinth, together with all his holy people throughout Achaia:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CO.1.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CO.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Praise to the God of All Comfort</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CO.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CO.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CO.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CO.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CO.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CO.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CO.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CO.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:8 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word for </span><span class="fq">brothers and sisters </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">adelphoi</span>) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God&#8217;s family; also in 8:1; 13:11.</span></span></span><span class="content"> about the troubles we experienced in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired of life itself. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CO.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CO.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us again. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CO.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">as you help us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the gracious favor granted us in answer to the prayers of many.</span></span></div>
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