2 Corinthians 1:8-10

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁸ For we do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, of the affliction^[a] we experienced in Asia; for we were so utterly, unbearably crushed that we despaired of life itself. ⁹ Why, we felt that we had received the sentence of death; but that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead; ¹⁰ he delivered us from so deadly a peril, and he will deliver us; on him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again.