2 Corinthians 1:6
But whether we are oppressed, it is for your encouragement and salvation, which works by endurance from the same sufferings that we also experience (and our hope for you is steadfast), or we are encouraged, it is for your encourage
A Conservative Version
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In Context
7knowing that, as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also of the encouragement.
Cross References
Romans 5:3And not only so, but we also take pride in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance,
1 Corinthians 3:21Therefore let not one man boast in men. For all things are yours,
2 Corinthians 4:15For all things are for your sakes, so that the grace, which has multiplied because of the thankfulness of the many, may abound for the glory of God.
2 Corinthians 12:15And I most gladly will spend, and will be spent for your souls. Even though more earnestly loving you, the worse I am loved.
Philippians 1:19For I know that this will turn out to me for salvation (through your entreaty, and the support of the Spirit of Jesus Christ)
Hebrews 12:10For those men indeed for a few days chastened us according to that which seemed good to them, but he for that which is advantageous, in order to be partakers of his holiness.
Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 1:4-7
Paul's Sufferings and Consolations. ( a. d. 57.) 3 Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; 4 Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. 5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ. 6 And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the… Read the whole commentary →