2 Corinthians 1:6

So, if we are in tribulation, it is for your exhortation and salvation, or if we are in consolation, it is for your consolation, or if we are exhorted, it is for your exhortation and salvation, which results in the patient endurance of the same passion which we also endure.

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In The King James Version

And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.

In Context

5For just as the Passion of Christ abounds in us, so also, through Christ, does our consolation abound.

7So may our hope for you be made firm, knowing that, just as you are participants in the suffering, so also shall you be participants in the consolation.

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Cross References

Romans 5:3And not only that, but we also find glory in tribulation, knowing that tribulation exercises patience,

1 Corinthians 3:21And so, let no one glory in men.

2 Corinthians 4:15Thus, all is for you, so that grace, abounding through many in thanksgiving, may abound to the glory of God.

2 Corinthians 12:15And so, very willingly, I will spend and exhaust myself for the sake of your souls, loving you more, while being loved less.

Philippians 1:19For I know that this will bring me to salvation, through your prayers and under the ministration of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

Hebrews 12:10And indeed, for a few days and according to their own wishes, they instructed us. But he does so to our benefit, so that we may receive his sanctification.

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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