2 Corinthians 1:6

But if, on the one hand, we are enduring affliction, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if, on the other hand, we are receiving comfort, it is for your comfort which is produced within you through your patient fortitude under the same sufferings as those which we also are enduring.

Weymouth NT (1912)

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 we have more than our share of suffering for the Christ, so also through the Christ we have more than our share of comfort.

7And our hope for you is stedfast; for we know that as you are partners with us in the sufferings, so you are also partners in the comfort.

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Cross References

Romans 5:3And not only so: we also exult in our sufferings, knowing as we do, that suffering produces fortitude;

1 Corinthians 3:21Therefore let no one boast about his human teachers.

2 Corinthians 4:15For everything is for your sakes, in order that grace, being more richly bestowed because of the thanksgivings of the increased number, may more and more promote the glory of God.

2 Corinthians 12:15And as for me, most gladly will I spend all I have and be utterly spent for your salvation.

Philippians 1:19For I know that it will result in my salvation through your prayers and a bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

Hebrews 12:10It is true that they disciplined us for a few years according as they thought fit; but He does it for our certain good, in order that we may become sharers in His own holy character.

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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