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2 Corinthians 1:3-11
New American Bible (Revised Edition)

Thanksgiving. 3 (A)Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and God of all encouragement,[a] 4 who encourages us in our every affliction, so that we may be able to encourage those who are in any affliction with the encouragement with which we ourselves are encouraged by God.(B) 5 For as Christ’s sufferings overflow to us, so through Christ[b] does our encouragement also overflow. 6 If we are afflicted, it is for your encouragement and salvation; if we are encouraged, it is for your encouragement, which enables you to endure the same sufferings that we suffer. 7 Our hope for you is firm, for we know that as you share in the sufferings, you also share in the encouragement.[c]

8 We do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the affliction that came to us in the province of Asia;[d] we were utterly weighed down beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life.(C) 9 Indeed, we had accepted within ourselves the sentence of death,[e] that we might trust not in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.(D) 10 He rescued us from such great danger of death, and he will continue to rescue us; in him we have put our hope [that] he will also rescue us again,(E) 11 as you help us with prayer, so that thanks may be given by many on our behalf for the gift granted us through the prayers of many.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. 1:3 God of all encouragement: Paul expands a standard Jewish blessing so as to state the theme of the paragraph. The theme of “encouragement” or “consolation” (paraklēsis) occurs ten times in this opening, against a background formed by multiple references to “affliction” and “suffering.”
  2. 1:5 Through Christ: the Father of compassion is the Father of our Lord Jesus (2 Cor 1:3); Paul’s sufferings and encouragement (or “consolation”) are experienced in union with Christ. Cf. Lk 2:25: the “consolation of Israel” is Jesus himself.
  3. 1:7 You also share in the encouragement: the eschatological reversal of affliction and encouragement that Christians expect (cf. Mt 5:4; Lk 6:24) permits some present experience of reversal in the Corinthians’ case, as in Paul’s.
  4. 1:8 Asia: a Roman province in western Asia Minor, the capital of which was Ephesus.
  5. 1:9–10 The sentence of death: it is unclear whether Paul is alluding to a physical illness or to an external threat to life. The result of the situation was to produce an attitude of faith in God alone. God who raises the dead: rescue is the constant pattern of God’s activity; his final act of encouragement is the resurrection.
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