2 Corinthians 1:6 - English Majority Text Version 2009

⁶ Now if we are afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effective for enduring the same sufferings which we also suffer.

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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

But when it came about that we had completed the days [there], having gone out we departed, all [of them] accompanying us, together with [their ]wives and children, until [we were] outside the city. And having bowed [our] knees on the shore, we prayed.

Romans 8:28

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to [His ]purpose.

2 Corinthians 1:4

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

2 Corinthians 12:15

And I gladly will spend and be expended for your souls; although the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.

2 Corinthians 5:5

Now He who has prepared us for this same thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.

Ephesians 3:1

For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus in behalf of you Gentiles-

Ephesians 3:13

Therefore I beseech [you] not to lose heart at my tribulations on your behalf, which is your glory.

Philippians 1:19

For I know that this will turn out for my deliverance through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

2 Timothy 2:10

Because of this, I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.