2 Corinthians 1:6

But if we are troubled it is in behalf of your consolation and salvation; if we are comforted, it is in behalf of your consolation, working in you through the endurance of the same sufferings which we also suffer.

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

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 in us, so our consolation through Christ also abounds.

7And our hope is stedfast in your behalf; knowing that, as you are the partakers of the sufferings, so you are also of the consolation.

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Cross References

Romans 5:3And not only so, but let us also rejoice in tribulation; knowing that tribulation works out endurance;

1 Corinthians 3:21So let no one boast among men; for all things are yours;

2 Corinthians 4:15For all things are for your sakes, in order that the grace, overflowing with thanksgiving through many, may abound unto the glory of God.

2 Corinthians 12:15But I will most delightfully spend and be spent for your souls. If the more abundantly I love you am I loved the less?

Philippians 1:19For I know that this will turn out to me unto salvation, through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

Hebrews 12:10For they indeed for a few days were accustomed to chastise us according to that which seemed right to them; but he made unto our profit, in order that we might partake 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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