2 Corinthians 1:11

For we don’t desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia: that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.

Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver, on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us,

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

For we write no other things to you than what you read or even acknowledge, and I hope you will acknowledge to the end—

as also you acknowledged us in part—that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.