2 Corinthians 1:8

“Parthians and Medes and Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,

I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that often I have planned to come to you (and have been prevented so far) so that I may have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.

If from human motives I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.

in every way afflicted, but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing;

as unknown and yet well-known, as dying and yet behold, we live; as punished and yet not put to death,