2 Corinthians 1:6
But whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectually wrought by patient endurance of the same sufferings which we also suffer; or if we are comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
5Because as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so through Christ aboundeth also our consolation.
Cross References
Romans 5:3And not only so, but we glory also in tribulations: knowing that tribulation produceth patience;
1 Corinthians 3:21Wherefore let no man glory in men. For all things are your’s;
2 Corinthians 4:15For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace, through the thanksgiving of more persons, may more abound to the glory of God.
2 Corinthians 12:15And I will most cheerfully spend and be spent for your souls, though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.
Philippians 1:19For I know that this shall issue in my salvation through your prayers, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
Hebrews 12:10For they indeed for a few days as seemed proper to themselves corrected us; but he for our own advantage, that we might 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 →