2 Corinthians 1:6

But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which works in you when you patiently endure the same sufferings which we suffer.

Revised King James 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 as we abundantly share in the sufferings of Christ, so through Christ we also abundantly share in comfort.

7And our hope for you is steadfast, knowing, that as you are partakers of our sufferings, so you also partake of our comfort.

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Cross References

Romans 5:3And not only this, but we also rejoice in tribulations: knowing that tribulation works perseverance;

1 Corinthians 3:21Therefore, let no one glory in men. For all things are yours;

2 Corinthians 4:15For all things are for your sakes, that as grace extends to more and more people, it might cause thanksgiving to abound, to the glory of God.

2 Corinthians 12:15And I will very gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I to be loved the less?

Philippians 1:19For I know that this shall turn out for my deliverance through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

Hebrews 12:10For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them; but he disciplines us for our good, 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 →

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