2 Corinthians 1:5
New International Version
For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ.

New Living Translation
For the more we suffer for Christ, the more God will shower us with his comfort through Christ.

English Standard Version
For as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.

Berean Standard Bible
For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.

Berean Literal Bible
because as the sufferings of the Christ abound toward us, so through Christ our comfort also abounds.

King James Bible
For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.

New King James Version
For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also abounds through Christ.

New American Standard Bible
For just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ.

NASB 1995
For just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ.

NASB 1977
For just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ.

Legacy Standard Bible
For just as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, so also our comfort abounds through Christ.

Amplified Bible
For just as Christ’s sufferings are ours in abundance [as they overflow to His followers], so also our comfort [our reassurance, our encouragement, our consolation] is abundant through Christ [it is truly more than enough to endure what we must].

Christian Standard Bible
For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, so through Christ our comfort also overflows.

American Standard Version
For as the sufferings of Christ abound unto us, even so our comfort also aboundeth through Christ.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For just as the sufferings of The Messiah abound in us, in this way our comforts also abound by The Messiah.

Contemporary English Version
We share in the terrible sufferings of Christ, but also in the wonderful comfort he gives.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us: so also by Christ doth our comfort abound.

English Revised Version
For as the sufferings of Christ abound unto us, even so our comfort also aboundeth through Christ.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Because Christ suffered so much for us, we can receive so much comfort from him.

Good News Translation
Just as we have a share in Christ's many sufferings, so also through Christ we share in God's great help.

International Standard Version
For as the Messiah's sufferings overflow into us, so also our comfort overflows through the Messiah.

Literal Standard Version
because, as the sufferings of the Christ abound to us, so through the Christ our comfort also abounds;

Majority Standard Bible
For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.

New American Bible
For as Christ’s sufferings overflow to us, so through Christ does our encouragement also overflow.

NET Bible
For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow toward us, so also our comfort through Christ overflows to you.

New Revised Standard Version
For just as the sufferings of Christ are abundant for us, so also our consolation is abundant through Christ.

New Heart English Bible
For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.

Webster's Bible Translation
For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.

Weymouth New Testament
For just as we have more than our share of suffering for the Christ, so also through the Christ we have more than our share of comfort.

World English Bible
For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.

Young's Literal Translation
because, as the sufferings of the Christ do abound to us, so through the Christ doth abound also our comfort;

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The God of All Comfort
4who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God. 5For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, so also through Christ our comfort overflows. 6If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which accomplishes in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we experience.…

Cross References
Romans 8:17
And if we are children, then we are heirs: heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ--if indeed we suffer with Him, so that we may also be glorified with Him.

2 Corinthians 4:10
We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

Philippians 3:10
I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to Him in His death,

Colossians 1:24
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is lacking in regard to Christ's afflictions for the sake of His body, which is the church.

2 Timothy 3:11
my persecutions, and the sufferings that came upon me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.

1 Peter 4:13
But rejoice that you share in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed at the revelation of His glory.


Treasury of Scripture

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

as.

2 Corinthians 4:10,11
Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body…

2 Corinthians 11:23-30
Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft…

Acts 9:4
And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

so.

Luke 2:25
And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him.

Philippians 2:1
If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

2 Thessalonians 2:16,17
Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, …

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2 Corinthians 1
1. Paul salutes the Corinthians;
3. he encourages them against troubles,
5. by the comforts and deliverances which God had given him,
8. so particularly in his late danger in Asia.
12. And calling both his own conscience and theirs,
15. he excuses his not coming to them, as proceeding not of lightness,
23. but of his care for them.














(5) Abound in us.--Better, overflow to us. The sufferings of Christ, as in 1Peter 4:13; 1Peter 5:1 (the Greek in 1Peter 1:11 expresses a different thought), are those which He endured on earth; those which, in His mysterious union with His Church, are thought as passing from Him to every member of His body, that they too may drink of the cup that He drank of. For the thought that in our sufferings, of whatever nature, we share Christ's sufferings, comp. 2Corinthians 4:10; Philippians 3:10; Colossians 1:24; 1Peter 4:13. The use of the plural, "our tribulations," "overflow to us," is dependent partly on the fact that St. Paul has joined Timotheus with himself in his salutation, and partly on the fact that it is his usual way of speaking of himself unless he has distinctly to assert his own individuality. . . . Verse 5. - As the sufferings of Christ abound in us; rather, unto us. "The sufferings of Christ" are the sufferings which he endured in the days of his flesh, and they were not exhausted by him, but overflow to us who have to suffer as he suffered, bearing about with us his dying, that we may share his life (2 Corinthians 4:10). The idea is, not that he is suffering in us and with us (though the truth of his intense sympathy with his suffering Church may be shadowed forth in some such terms, Matthew 25:40-45; Acts 9:4), but that we have "a fellowship in his sufferings" (Philippians 3:17); Galatians 2:20, "I have been crucified with Christ;" Hebrews 13:13, "Bearing his reproach." Our sufferings are the sufferings of Christ because we suffer as he suffered (1 Peter 4:13) and in the same cause. Aboundeth by Christ. If his sufferings, as it were, overflow to us, so too is he the Source of our comfort, in that he sendeth us the Comforter (John 14:16-18).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
For
ὅτι (hoti)
Conjunction
Strong's 3754: Neuter of hostis as conjunction; demonstrative, that; causative, because.

just as
καθὼς (kathōs)
Adverb
Strong's 2531: According to the manner in which, in the degree that, just as, as. From kata and hos; just as, that.

the
τὰ (ta)
Article - Nominative Neuter Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

sufferings
παθήματα (pathēmata)
Noun - Nominative Neuter Plural
Strong's 3804: From a presumed derivative of pathos; something undergone, i.e. Hardship or pain; subjectively, an emotion or influence.

of Christ
Χριστοῦ (Christou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 5547: Anointed One; the Messiah, the Christ. From chrio; Anointed One, i.e. The Messiah, an epithet of Jesus.

overflow
περισσεύει (perisseuei)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 4052: From perissos; to superabound, be in excess, be superfluous; also to cause to superabound or excel.

to
εἰς (eis)
Preposition
Strong's 1519: A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases.

us,
ἡμᾶς (hēmas)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative 1st Person Plural
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

so
οὕτως (houtōs)
Adverb
Strong's 3779: Thus, so, in this manner. Or (referring to what precedes or follows).

also
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

through
διὰ (dia)
Preposition
Strong's 1223: A primary preposition denoting the channel of an act; through.

Christ
Χριστοῦ (Christou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 5547: Anointed One; the Messiah, the Christ. From chrio; Anointed One, i.e. The Messiah, an epithet of Jesus.

our
ἡμῶν (hēmōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 1st Person Plural
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

comfort
παράκλησις (paraklēsis)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3874: From parakaleo; imploration, hortation, solace.

overflows.
περισσεύει (perisseuei)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 4052: From perissos; to superabound, be in excess, be superfluous; also to cause to superabound or excel.


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