The God of Comfort

3 Praise(A) the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies(B) and the God of all comfort.(C) 4 He comforts us in all our affliction,(a) so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction, through the comfort we ourselves receive from God.

Footnotes:

a. 2 Corinthians 1:4: Or trouble, or tribulation, or trials, or oppression; the Gk word has a lit meaning of being under pressure.

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