2 Corinthians 1:6

But whether we are afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effective in the endurance of the same sufferings which we also suffer; or whether we are consoled, it is for your consolation and salvation.

The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)

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

5Because, as the sufferings of Christ abound toward us, so through Christ abounds also our consolation.

7And our hope of you is steadfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so are ye also of the consolation.

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Cross References

Romans 5:3And not only so, but we rejoice in afflictions also; knowing that affliction works patience;

1 Corinthians 3:21So then, let no one glory in men. For all things are yours;

2 Corinthians 4:15For all things are for your sakes; that the grace, abounding through the greater number, might make the thanksgiving more abundant, to the glory of God.

2 Corinthians 12:15And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.

Philippians 1:19For I know that this will turn out for my salvation, through your supplication, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ;

Hebrews 12:10For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we might 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 →

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