2 Corinthians 1:6-8

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁶ If we are being afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation; if we are being consoled, it is for your consolation, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we are also suffering. ⁷ Our hope for you is unshaken; for we know that as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our consolation.

⁸ We do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters,^[a] of the affliction we experienced in Asia; for we were so utterly, unbearably crushed that we despaired of life itself.