2 Corinthians 1:6

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • 2 Tim 2:10 : 10 Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones' sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
  • 2 Cor 1:4 : 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.
  • 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 to the glory of God. 16 Therefore we don't faint, 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, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory; 18 while we don't look 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 who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.
  • 2 Cor 12:15 : 15 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 Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.
  • Phil 1:19 : 19 For I know that this will 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, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness. 11 All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.
  • Rom 5:3-5 : 3 Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance; 4 and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope: 5 and hope doesn't disappoint us, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
  • Rom 8:28 : 28 We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
  • 1 Cor 3:21-23 : 21 Therefore let no one boast 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 you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
  • Acts 21:5 : 5 When it happened that we had accomplished the days, we departed and went on our journey. They all, with wives and children, brought us on our way until we were out of the city. Kneeling down on the beach, we prayed.

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  • 2 Cor 1:3-5
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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.

    5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.

  • 2 Cor 1:7-8
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    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.

  • 1 Thess 3:7-8
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    7 for this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith.

    8 For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.

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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.

    6 Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,

  • 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,

  • 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 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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    4 but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

  • 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,

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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.

  • 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 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

  • Rom 5:3
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    3 Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance;

  • Phil 1:28-30
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    28 and in nothing frightened by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.

    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.

  • 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;

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    26 When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. Or when one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

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    12 We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.

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    9 But, beloved, we are persuaded of better things for you, and things that accompany salvation, even though we speak like this.

  • 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,

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    8 We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;

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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;

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    9 I now rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you were made sorry to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly way, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing.

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    11 you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift bestowed on us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on your behalf.

    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.

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    2 but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Good News of God in much conflict.

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    14 For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews;

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

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    9 Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.

    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.

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    8 Therefore don't be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

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    10 as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.