2 Corinthians 1:6 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁶ 5 And in this confidence I had a mind to come to you before, that you might have a second grace:

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ But if we are troubled (afflicted and distressed), it is for your comfort (consolation and encouragement) and [for your] salvation; and if we are comforted (consoled and encouraged), it is for your comfort (consolation and encouragement), which works [in you] when you patiently endure the same evils (misfortunes and calamities) that we also suffer and undergo.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ 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:

Common English Bible

⁶ So if we have trouble, it is to bring you comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is to bring you comfort from the experience of endurance while you go through the same sufferings that we also suffer.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ So, if we are in tribulation, it is for your exhortation and salvation, or if we are in consolation, it is for your consolation, or if we are exhorted, it is for your exhortation and salvation, which results in the patience endurance of the same passion which we also endure.

2 Corinthians 1:6 Cross References

Acts 21:5

3 Then Paul answered, and said: What do you mean weeping and afflicting my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but to die also in Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord Jesus.

Romans 8:28

6 (As it is written: For thy sake we are put to death all the day long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.)

2 Corinthians 1:4

3 For we write no other things to you than what you have read and known. And I hope that you shall know unto the end:

2 Corinthians 12:15

Do you seek a proof of Christ that speaketh in me, who towards you is not weak, but is mighty in you?

2 Corinthians 5:5

4 For the charity of Christ presseth us: judging this, that if one died for all, then all were dead.

Ephesians 3:1

0 That the manifold wisdom of God may be made known to the principalities and powers in heavenly places through the church,

Ephesians 3:13

I therefore, a prisoner in the Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation in which you are called,

Philippians 1:19

8 And in nothing be ye terrified by the adversaries: which to them is a cause of perdition, but to you of salvation, and this from God:

2 Timothy 2:10

9 But the sure foundation of God standeth firm, having this seal: the Lord knoweth who are his; and let every one depart from iniquity who nameth the name of the Lord.