2 Corinthians 1:5
Good News Translation
Just as we have a share in Christ's many sufferings, so also through Christ we share in God's great help.

New Revised Standard Version
For just as the sufferings of Christ are abundant for us, so also our consolation is abundant through Christ.

Contemporary English Version
We share in the terrible sufferings of Christ, but also in the wonderful comfort he gives.

New American Bible
For as Christ’s sufferings overflow to us, so through Christ does our encouragement also overflow.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us: so also by Christ doth our comfort abound.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us: so also by Christ doth our comfort abound.

as.

2 Corinthians 4:10,11 Always bearing about in our body the mortification of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our bodies. . . .

2 Corinthians 11:23-30 They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as one less wise): I am more; in many more labours, in prisons more frequently, in stripes above measure, in deaths often. . . .

Acts 9:4 And falling on the ground, he heard a voice saying to him: Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

1 Corinthians 4:10-13 We are fools for Christs sake, but you are wise in Christ: we are weak, but you are strong: you are honourable, but we without honour. . . .

Philippians 1:20 According to my expectation and hope; that in nothing I shall be confounded: but with all confidence, as always, so now also, shall Christ be magnified in my body, whether it be by life or by death.

Philippians 3:10 That I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings: being made conformable to his death,

Colossians 1:24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you and fill up those things that are wanting of the sufferings of Christ, in my flesh, for his body, which is the church:

so.

Luke 2:25 And behold there was a man in Jerusalem named Simeon: and this man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel. And the Holy Ghost was in him.

Philippians 2:1 If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of charity, if any society of the spirit, if any bowels of commiseration:

2 Thessalonians 2:16,17 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God and our Father, who hath loved us and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope in grace, . . .

Context
The God of All Comfort
4Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we also may be able to comfort them who are in all distress, by the exhortation wherewith we also are exhorted by God. 5For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us: so also by Christ doth our comfort abound. 6Now whether we be in tribulation, it is for your exhortation and salvation: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation: or whether we be exhorted, it is for your exhortation and salvation, which worketh the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.…
Cross References
Romans 8:17
And if sons, heirs also; heirs indeed of God and joint heirs with Christ: yet so, if we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified with him.

2 Corinthians 4:10
Always bearing about in our body the mortification of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our bodies.

Philippians 3:10
That I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings: being made conformable to his death,

Colossians 1:24
Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you and fill up those things that are wanting of the sufferings of Christ, in my flesh, for his body, which is the church:

2 Timothy 3:11
Persecutions, afflictions: such as came upon me at Antioch, at Iconium and at Lystra: what persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Lord delivered me.

1 Peter 4:13
But if you partake of the sufferings of Christ, rejoice that, when his glory shall be revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy.

2 Corinthians 1:4
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