2 Corinthians 1:5

World English Bible (2000)

For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds 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 assembly;
  • Phil 3:10 : 10 that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to 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 you in every good work and word.
  • Luke 2:25 : 25 Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.
  • Acts 9:4 : 4 He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?"
  • 1 Cor 4:10-13 : 10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor. 11 Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place. 12 We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure. 13 Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.
  • 2 Cor 4:10-11 : 10 always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. 11 For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.
  • 2 Cor 11:23-30 : 23 Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often. 24 Five times from the Jews I received forty stripes minus one. 25 Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep. 26 I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers; 27 in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness. 28 Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily, anxiety for all the assemblies. 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don't burn with indignation? 30 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.
  • Phil 1:20 : 20 according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will 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 compassion,

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  • 2 Cor 1:6-8
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    6 But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.

    7 Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so also are you of the comfort.

    8 For we don't desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.

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

    4 who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

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

  • 2 Cor 7:4
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    4 Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting 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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    4 so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.

    5 This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of the Kingdom of God, for which you also suffer.

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

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

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

    3 Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance;

  • 2 Thess 2:16-17
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    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 you in every good work and word.

  • Phil 2:1
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    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 compassion,

  • Phlm 1:7
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    7 For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

  • Rom 15:4-5
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    4 For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

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

  • Col 1:24
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    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 assembly;

  • 2 Cor 7:6-7
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    6 Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us by the coming of Titus;

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

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

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

    3 that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

    4 For most certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know.

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

  • 1 Thess 1:5-6
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    5 and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.

    6 You 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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    10 as 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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    6 Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been put to grief in various trials,

  • 2 Cor 1:12
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    12 For our boasting 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 toward you.

  • 1 Pet 5:10
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    10 But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

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

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

    30 having the same conflict which you saw in me, and now hear is in me.

  • Rom 8:18
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    18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

  • Rom 5:11
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    11 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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    4 but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

  • 2 Cor 4:10-12
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    10 always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

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

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

  • 2 Cor 5:13-14
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    13 For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you.

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

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

  • 2 Cor 4:15
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    15 For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.

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

  • 2 Cor 3:4
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    4 Such confidence we have through Christ toward God;

  • 2 Cor 4:8
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    8 We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;

  • 2 Cor 2:14
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    14 Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.