2 Corinthians 1:8-9 (1:3) For we wish you not to be ignorant, brothers, of our affliction which befell us in Asia, that we were exceedingly oppressed beyond our power, so that we despaired even of life;

Sawyer⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁸ ^(1:3) For we wish you not to be ignorant, brothers, of our affliction which befell us in Asia, that we were exceedingly oppressed beyond our power, so that we despaired even of life; ⁹ but we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we might not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,