2 Corinthians 1:6
Now whether we be in tribulation, it is for your exhortation and salvation: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation: or whether we be exhorted, it is for your exhortation and salvation, which worketh the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
5For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us: so also by Christ doth our comfort abound.
Cross References
Romans 5:3And not only so; but we glory also in tribulations, knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
1 Corinthians 3:21Let no man therefore glory in men.
2 Corinthians 4:15For all things are for your sakes; that the grace abounding through many, may abound in thanksgiving unto the glory of God.
2 Corinthians 12:15But I most gladly will spend and be spent myself for your souls; although loving you more, I be loved less.
Philippians 1:19For I know that this shall fall out to me unto salvation, through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
Hebrews 12:10And they indeed for a few days, according to their own pleasure, instructed us: but he, for our profit, that we might 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 →