2 Corinthians 1:6
And 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;
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
5For as the sufferings for the Christ abound in us, so also through Christ abounds our consolation.
Cross References
Romans 5:3And not only so, but we rejoice in afflictions also; because we know that affliction produces patience,
1 Corinthians 3:21Therefore, let no one glory in men; for all things are yours,
2 Corinthians 4:15For all these afflictions are for your sakes, that the favor which abounds to me, may, through the thanksgiving of the many, abound richly to the glory of God.
2 Corinthians 12:15I, indeed, will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
Philippians 1:19for I know that this will result in my benefit through your supplication, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
Hebrews 12:10For they, indeed, for a few days, chastened us as they thought it good; but he chastens us for our profit, that we may 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 →