If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer.

For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing,

For he says, “In a favorable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.

For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.