Verse 6

But whether we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or whether we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which worketh in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer:

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Tim 2:10 : 10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
  • 2 Cor 1:4 : 4 who comforteth us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort them that are in any affliction, through the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
  • 2 Cor 4:15-18 : 15 For all things [are] for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound unto the glory of God. 16 Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. 17 For our light affliction, which is for the moment, worketh for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory; 18 while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
  • 2 Cor 5:5 : 5 Now he that wrought us for this very thing is God, who gave unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
  • 2 Cor 12:15 : 15 And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?
  • Eph 3:13 : 13 Wherefore I ask that ye may not faint at my tribulations for you, which are your glory.
  • Phil 1:19 : 19 For I know that this shall turn out to my salvation, through your supplication and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
  • Heb 12:10-11 : 10 For they indeed for a few days chastened [us] as seemed good to them; but he for [our] profit, that [we] may be partakers of his holiness. 11 All chastening seemeth for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit unto them that have been exercised thereby, [even the fruit] of righteousness.
  • Rom 5:3-5 : 3 And not only so, but we also rejoice in our tribulations: knowing that tribulation worketh stedfastness; 4 and stedfastness, approvedness; and approvedness, hope: 5 and hope putteth not to shame; because the love of God hath been shed abroad in our hearts through the Holy Spirit which was given unto us.
  • Rom 8:28 : 28 And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, [even] to them that are called according to [his] purpose.
  • 1 Cor 3:21-23 : 21 Wherefore let no one glory in men. For all things are yours; 22 whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; 23 and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.
  • Acts 21:5 : 5 And when it came to pass that we had accomplished the days, we departed and went on our journey; and they all, with wives and children, brought us on our way till we were out of the city: and kneeling down on the beach, we prayed, and bade each other farewell;