2 Corinthians 1:7

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

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.

In Context

6If 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.

8Now, brothers, I want you to know about the troubles which befell me in Asia; how I was burdened altogether beyond my strength, so that I renounced all hope even of life itself.

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Cross References

Luke 22:28"You, however, are those who have stood by me in my trials.

1 Corinthians 10:13No temptation has overtaken you that is beyond man’s power; but God is faithful, who will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear, but will, with every temptation, provide the way of escape also, so that you may be able to withstand.

2 Corinthians 7:9But now I am glad; not because you were pained; but because your pain led you to repentance.

Philippians 1:6Of this I am fully persuaded, that He who has begun a good work in you will go on completing it until the day of Jesus Christ.

2 Thessalonians 1:4So that I myself am boasting about you among the churches of God, boasting of the stedfastness and faith which you are displaying in all the troubles and afflictions which you are enduring.

James 1:2My brothers, when you are beset by various temptations, count it all joy,

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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