2 Corinthians 1:6
But whether we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or whether we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which worketh in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer:
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In Context
5For as the sufferings of Christ abound unto us, even so our comfort also aboundeth through Christ.
Cross References
Romans 5:3And not only so, but we also rejoice in our tribulations: knowing that tribulation worketh stedfastness;
1 Corinthians 3:21Wherefore let no one glory in men. For all things are yours;
2 Corinthians 4:15For all things [are] for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound unto the glory of God.
2 Corinthians 12:15And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?
Philippians 1:19For I know that this shall turn out to 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] may 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 →