⁹ known, yet regarded as unknown; dying,^(A) and yet we live on;^(B) beaten, and yet not killed;

⁹ For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on display at the end of the procession, like those condemned to die^(A) in the arena. We have been made a spectacle^(B) to the whole universe, to angels as well as to human beings.

³¹ I face death every day^(A)—yes, just as surely as I boast about you in Christ Jesus our Lord.

⁵ For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ,^(A) so also our comfort abounds through Christ.

⁹ Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God,^(A) who raises the dead.^(B)