2 Corinthians 1:6

If I am afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if I am receiving comfort, it is for your comfort - a comfort produced within you by your patient fortitude, under the same sufferings which I also am enduring.

Montgomery New Testament

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 I have more than my share in the sufferings of the Christ, so also through the Christ I have more than my share of comfort.

7My hope for you is firm; for I know that as you are comrades in my sufferings, so also are you comrades in my comfort.

Read all of 2 Corinthians 1

Cross References

Romans 5:3And not only so, but we are actually exulting also even in our troubles; for we know that trouble works fortitude,

1 Corinthians 3:21So let no one make boast in men. For all things are yours;

2 Corinthians 4:15For everything is for your sakes, so that more abundant grace, because of the thanksgiving of many voices, might overflow to the glory of God.

2 Corinthians 12:15For my part, I will most gladly spend, yea, and will myself be spent, for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I to be loved the less?

Philippians 1:19For I know that these things will turn out to my salvation through your prayers and a rich supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

Hebrews 12:10For they only disciplined us for a few days, as seemed good to them; but he does it for our profit, that we may share 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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study 2 Corinthians 1:6