Yea, we received the sentence of death in [a]ourselves, because we should not rest in ourselves, but in God, which raised the dead.

10 Who delivered us from so [b]great a death, and doth deliver us: in whom we trust, that yet hereafter he will deliver us.

11 (A)[c]So that ye labor together in prayer for us, [d]that for the gift bestowed upon us for many, thanks may be given by many persons for us.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 1:9 I was resolved within myself to die.
  2. 2 Corinthians 1:10 From these great dangers.
  3. 2 Corinthians 1:11 That he may not seem to boast himself, he attributeth all to God, and therewith also confesseth that he attributeth much to the prayers of the faithful.
  4. 2 Corinthians 1:11 The end of the afflictions of the Saints, is the glory of God, and therefore they ought to be precious unto us.

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