2 Corinthians 1:5

American Standard Version (1901)

For as the sufferings of Christ abound unto us, even so our comfort also aboundeth through Christ.

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  • Col 1:24 : 24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church;
  • Phil 3:10 : 10 that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed unto his death;
  • 2 Thess 2:16-17 : 16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, 17 comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word.
  • Luke 2:25 : 25 And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and this man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Spirit was upon him.
  • Acts 9:4 : 4 and he fell upon the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
  • 1 Cor 4:10-13 : 10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye have glory, but we have dishonor. 11 Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place; 12 and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure; 13 being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things, even until now.
  • 2 Cor 4:10-11 : 10 always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body. 11 For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
  • 2 Cor 11:23-30 : 23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths oft. 24 Of the Jews five times received I forty [stripes] save one. 25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day have I been in the deep; 26 [ in] journeyings often, [in] perils of rivers, [in] perils of robbers, [in] perils from [my] countrymen, [in] perils from the Gentiles, [in] perils in the city, [in] perils in the wilderness, [in] perils in the sea, [in] perils among false brethren; 27 [ in] labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. 28 Besides those things that are without, there is that which presseth upon me daily, anxiety for all the churches. 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is caused to stumble, and I burn not? 30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things that concern my weakness.
  • Phil 1:20 : 20 according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing shall I be put to shame, but [that] with all boldness, as always, [so] now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.
  • Phil 2:1 : 1 If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassions,

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  • 2 Cor 1:6-8
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    6But 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:

    7and our hope for you is stedfast; knowing that, as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also are ye of the comfort.

    8For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning our affliction which befell [us] in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, insomuch that we despaired even of life:

  • 2 Cor 1:3-4
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    3Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;

    4who 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.

  • 1 Thess 3:7
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    7for this cause, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith:

  • 2 Cor 7:4
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    4Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying on your behalf: I am filled with comfort, I overflow with joy in all our affliction.

  • 2 Thess 1:4-5
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    4so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which ye endure;

    5[ which is] a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God; to the end that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:

  • 1 Pet 4:13
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    13but insomuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings, rejoice; that at the revelation of his glory also ye may rejoice with exceeding joy.

  • 2 Cor 7:13
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    13Therefore we have been comforted: And in our comfort we joyed the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit hath been refreshed by you all.

  • Rom 5:2-3
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    2through whom also we have had our access by faith into this grace wherein we stand; and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

    3And not only so, but we also rejoice in our tribulations: knowing that tribulation worketh stedfastness;

  • 2 Thess 2:16-17
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    16Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,

    17comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word.

  • Phil 2:1
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    1If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassions,

  • Phlm 1:7
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    7For I had much joy and comfort in thy love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through thee, brother.

  • Rom 15:4-5
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    4For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that through patience and through comfort of the scriptures we might have hope.

    5Now the God of patience and of comfort grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus:

  • Col 1:24
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    24Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church;

  • 2 Cor 7:6-7
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    6Nevertheless he that comforteth the lowly, [even] God, comforted us by the coming of Titus;

    7and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort wherewith he was comforted in you, while he told us your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced yet more.

  • 2 Cor 4:17
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    17For our light affliction, which is for the moment, worketh for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;

  • 1 Thess 3:2-4
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    2and sent Timothy, our brother and God's minister in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort [you] concerning your faith;

    3that no man be moved by these afflictions; for yourselves know that hereunto we are appointed.

    4For verily, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction; even as it came to pass, and ye know.

  • 1 Thess 4:18
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    18Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

  • 1 Thess 1:5-6
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    5how that our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and [in] much assurance; even as ye know what manner of men we showed ourselves toward you for your sake.

    6And ye became imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit;

  • 2 Cor 6:10
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    10as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and [yet] possessing all things.

  • 1 Pet 1:6
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    6Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, ye have been put to grief in manifold trials,

  • 2 Cor 1:12
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    12For our glorifying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

  • 1 Pet 5:10
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    10And the God of all grace, who called you unto his eternal glory in Christ, after that ye have suffered a little while, shall himself perfect, establish, strengthen you.

  • 2 Cor 8:2
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    2how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.

  • Phil 1:29-30
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    29because to you it hath been granted in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer in his behalf:

    30having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

  • Rom 8:18
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    18For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to us-ward.

  • Rom 5:11
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    11and not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

  • 2 Cor 6:4
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    4but in everything commending ourselves, as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

  • 2 Cor 4:10-12
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    10always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body.

    11For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

    12So then death worketh in us, but life in you.

  • 2 Cor 5:13-14
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    13For whether we are beside ourselves, it is unto God; or whether we are of sober mind, it is unto you.

    14For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that one died for all, therefore all died;

  • Rom 1:12
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    12that is, that I with you may be comforted in you, each of us by the other's faith, both yours and mine.

  • 2 Cor 4:15
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    15For 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.

  • 2 Cor 2:4
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    4For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly unto you.

  • 2 Cor 3:4
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    4And such confidence have we through Christ to God-ward:

  • 2 Cor 4:8
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    8[ we are] pressed on every side, yet not straitened; perplexed, yet not unto despair;

  • 2 Cor 2:14
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    14But thanks be unto God, who always leadeth us in triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest through us the savor of his knowledge in every place.