2 Corinthians 1:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Whether

It is

Acts 21:5

Effectual

General references

Matthew 5:4

Bible References

Whether

He comforts us in our every affliction so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction by means of the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

For everything is for your sakes, in order that grace, being more richly bestowed because of the thanksgivings of the increased number, may more and more promote the glory of God.

Therefore let no one boast about his human teachers.

For this reason I endure all things for the sake of God's own people; so that they also may obtain salvation--even the salvation which is in Christ Jesus--and with it eternal glory.

It is

When, however, our time was up, we left and went on our way, all the disciples and their wives and children coming to see us off. Then, after kneeling down on the beach and praying,

Effectual

For this our light and transitory burden of suffering is achieving for us a preponderating, yes, a vastly preponderating, and eternal weight of glory;

And He who formed us with this very end in view is God, who has given us His Spirit as a pledge and foretaste of that bliss.

And not only so: we also exult in our sufferings, knowing as we do, that suffering produces fortitude;

Now we know that for those who love God all things are working together for good--for those, I mean, whom with deliberate purpose He has called.

For I know that it will result in my salvation through your prayers and a bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

It is true that they disciplined us for a few years according as they thought fit; but He does it for our certain good, in order that we may become sharers in His own holy character.

General references

"Blessed are the mourners, for they shall be comforted.