2 Corinthians 1:3-5

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Paul’s Thanksgiving after Affliction

³Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, ⁴who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. ⁵For as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.^[a]

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2 Corinthians 1:5 Or For as the sufferings of Christ abound for us, so also our comfort abounds through Christ

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