2 Corinthians 1:7

because we know, that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so also you shall be partakers of the comfort.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.

In Context

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;

8For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning our affliction which came upon us in Asia, that we were exceedingly oppressed, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life.

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Cross References

Luke 22:28You are they that have continued with me in my trials;

1 Corinthians 10:13No trial has come upon you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tried more than you are able to bear; but he will, with the trial, make a way to escape, so that you be able to bear up under it.

2 Corinthians 7:9Now I rejoice not that you were made sorry, but that you sorrowed in order to repentance. For you sorrowed in a way acceptable to God, that you might in nothing receive injury from us.

Philippians 1:6being confident of this very thing, that he who has begun a good work in you, will carry it on till the day of Jesus Christ;

2 Thessalonians 1:4so that we ourselves glory in you, among the churches of God, for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and afflictions which you endure;

James 1:2My brethren, count it all joy, when you fall into manifold trials,

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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