⁴ My ^(A)confidence ^[a]in you is great; my ^(B)boasting in your behalf is great. I am filled with ^(C)comfort; I am overflowing with ^(D)joy in all our affliction.

⁵ For even when we came into ^(E)Macedonia our flesh had no rest, but we were ^(F)afflicted on every side: ^(G)conflicts on the outside, fears inside. ⁶ But ^(H)God, who comforts the ^[b]discouraged, ^(I)comforted us by the arrival of ^(J)Titus;