8 For we would not, brothers, have you ignorant of our troubles which came to us in Asia. We were pressured beyond measure, above strength, so that we despaired even of life.
9 We had the sentence of death in ourselves, so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead.
10 He delivered us from so great a death and does deliver us. In Him we trust that He will still deliver us,
11 as you help together by praying for us, so that thanks may be given by many on our behalf for the gift bestowed upon us by means of many persons.
12 For our rejoicing is this: The testimony of our conscience is that we conducted ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you, in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God.
13 For we write nothing else to you than what you read or understand. And I trust you will understand even to the end,
14 as you have understood us in part, that we are yours, boasting even as you are ours on the day of the Lord Jesus.