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2 Corinthians 1:6 Explained in Context

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Verse 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.

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Role in This Section

This verse explains how Paul's affliction and comfort serve the Corinthians' endurance and salvation.

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  • 2 Corinthians 1:3–11

Read 2 Corinthians 1:6 with 1:3–11. This verse explains how Paul's affliction and comfort serve the Corinthians' endurance and salvation. The complete unit establishes this movement: God meets Paul and his coworkers in affliction so received comfort can serve others; an ordeal beyond strength displaced self-reliance with resurrection trust, while the Corinthians share through prayer.

Why It Needs Context

Read this line with 2 Corinthians 1:3–11. The surrounding verses supply the complete movement summarized here: God meets Paul and his coworkers in affliction so received comfort can serve others; an ordeal beyond strength displaced self-reliance with resurrection trust, while the Corinthians share through prayer.

Read 2 Corinthians 1:3–11 together

Why these verses belong together: Comfort, affliction, resurrection trust, prayer, and thanksgiving form one blessing-testimony.

Verse 3. Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;

Verse 4. Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

Verse 5. For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.

Verse 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.

Verse 7. And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.

Verse 8. For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:

Verse 9. But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:

Verse 10. Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;

Verse 11. Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.

Continue in Context

Read the complete section for the connected explanation and how it should shape life. This verse is a doorway into that passage, not a saying that stands alone.

Read 2 Corinthians 1:3–11 — Comfort Received Becomes Comfort Shared
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Biblical text

King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006

eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society

USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.

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Exact location: 2 Corinthians 1:3–11, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus

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Greek textual evidence

The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition

Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos

Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010

Supports: Greek wording, clause relationships, repeated terms, and original-language discussion.

Exact location: SBLGNT official text file 2Co.txt, 1:3–11

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