2 Corinthians 1:2-7
J.B. Phillips New Testament
2 May grace and peace come to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
God’s encouragements are adequate for all life’s troubles
3-7 Thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, that he is our Father and the source of all mercy and comfort. For he gives us comfort in our trials so that we in turn may be able to give the same sort of strong sympathy to others in theirs. Indeed, experience shows that the more we share Christ’s suffering the more we are able to give of his encouragement. This means that if we experience trouble we can pass on to you comfort and spiritual help; for if we ourselves have been comforted we know how to encourage you to endure patiently the same sort of troubles that we have ourselves endured. We are quite confident that if you have to suffer troubles as we have done, then, like us, you will find the comfort and encouragement of God.
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2 Corinthians 1:2-4
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2 Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.(A)
Praise to the God of All Comfort
3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,(B) the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us(C) in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.
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