“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.”
— WEB
2 Corinthians 1:6
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“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.”
— KJV
“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:”
— ASV
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Commentary
we . . . afflicted . . . for your consolation--exemplifying the communion of saints. Their hearts were, so to speak, mirrors reflecting the likenesses of each other (Phi 2:26-27) [BENGEL]. Alike the afflictions and the consolations of the apostle tend, as in him so in them, as having communion with him, to their consolation (Co2 1:4; Co2 4:15). The Greek for "afflicted" is the same as before, and ought to be translated, "Whether we be in tribulation." which is effectual--literally, "worketh effectually." in the enduring, &c.--that is, in enabling you to endure "the same sufferings which we also suffer." Here follows, in the oldest manuscripts (not as English Version in the beginning of Co2 1:7), the clause, "And our hope is steadfast on your behalf."
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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