2 Corinthians 1:7

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

The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)

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

6But 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.

8For we would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of our affliction which befell us in Asia, that we were exceedingly oppressed, above our strength, so that we despaired even of life.

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Cross References

Luke 22:28Ye are they who have continued with me in my temptations;

1 Corinthians 10:13There has no temptation taken you but such as belongs to man; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted beyond what ye are able, but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

2 Corinthians 7:9Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye were made sorry unto repentance; for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might in nothing receive harm from us.

Philippians 1:6being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

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

James 1:2Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various temptations;

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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