2 Corinthians 1:6

But if we are afflicted, it is for your consolation and for your salvation that we be afflicted: and if we are consoled, it is that you may be consoled, that there may be in you perseverance to endure those sufferings which we also suffer.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

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 as the sufferings of the Meshiha abound in us, so, through the Meshiha, our consolation aboundeth also.

7And our hope concerning you is steadfast: for we know that if you participate in the sufferings, you also participate in the consolation.

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Cross References

Romans 5:3And not thus only, but also in afflictions we exult; for we know that affliction perfecteth patience in us,

1 Corinthians 3:21On this account let no one boast in men: for every thing is yours;

2 Corinthians 4:15For every thing is for your sake, that grace, abounding by many, may multiply praise to the glory of Aloha.

2 Corinthians 12:15But I gladly the expenses will spend, and also myself will I give for the sake of your souls: though, while the more I love you, you the less love me.

Philippians 1:19For I know that these things shall be found unto my life by your prayers, and by the gift of the Spirit of Jeshu Meshiha;

Hebrews 12:10For they, during a little time, as they willed, chastised us; but Aloha for our advantage, that we might partake 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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