2 Corinthians 1:5

For as the sufferings for the Christ abound in us, so also through Christ abounds our consolation.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.

In Context

4who con soles us in all our afflictions, so that we are able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

6And if we are afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which salvation is effected by your patient endurance of the same sufferings that we also suffer; (and our hope in you is steadfast;) or if we are consoled, it is for your comfort and salvation;

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Cross References

Acts 9:4And when he had fallen to the earth, he heard a voice saying to him: Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?

2 Corinthians 4:10always bearing about in our body the violent death of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our body.

Philippians 1:20according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing shall I be ashamed, but with all boldness, as at all times, so even now, Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.

Philippians 3:10that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, by conforming myself to his death,

2 Thessalonians 2:16Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, who has loved us, and given us eternal consolation and good hope through grace,

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 →

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