2 Corinthians 1:6

Translations

Modern

If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which accomplishes in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we experience.

Traditional

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.

Literal

But if we are hard pressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, operating in the endurance of the same sufferings that we also suffer.

Latin

Sive autem tribulamur pro vestra exhortatione et salute, sive consolamur pro vestra consolatione, sive exhortamur pro vestra exhortatione et salute, quæ operatur tolerantiam earumdem passionum, quas et nos patimur:

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English

If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which accomplishes in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we experience.

Notes

2 Corinthians 1:6

it is for your comfort and salvation: Paul shares in their troubles and offers encouragement to promote their spiritual well-being.

2 Corinthians 1:4–6

Suffering helps Christ's servants understand and empathize with others. Paul is not a distant pastor; he connects with the people he serves.

2 Corinthians 1:3–11

Paul now expresses joyful thanks. He is happy that, despite many troubles, God has given him special comfort (1:4–7) and saved him from death in Asia (1:8–11).

Theme notes and profiles

Paul (Saul) Christian Suffering

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Topics

Afflictions and Adversities: Design of Consolation Under Affliction by Ministers of the Gospel Love: Exemplification of the Love of Man for Man Ministers are Bound to Comfort

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