2 Corinthians 1:6

But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort. Your comfort is working effectively when you patiently share in the same sufferings that we also suffer.

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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 sufferings of Christ abound for our sake, so also our comfort abounds through Christ.

7Our expectation concerning you is unshaken, for we know that as you share the sufferings, you also share our comfort.

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Cross References

Romans 5:3Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings. We know that suffering produces endurance.

1 Corinthians 3:21For this reason, let no one boast in men. All things are yours,

2 Corinthians 4:15Everything is for your sake so that, as grace is spread to many people, thanksgiving may increase to the glory of God.

2 Corinthians 12:15I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?

Philippians 1:19for I know that this will result in my deliverance through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

Hebrews 12:10Our fathers disciplined us for a short time as they thought best. But God disciplines us for our good, so that we can share in 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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