2 Corinthians 1:6

And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation. WE BE AFFLICTED, IT IS FOR YOUR CONSOLATION. Because our afflictions are for the service of the Gospel, you share in our afflictions, and so in our consolation. Their hearts were mirrors reflecting the likenesses of each other (Philippians 2:26) (Bengel). Alike the apostle's afflictions and consolations tend, as in him, so in them, by communion with him, to the their consolation (2 Corinthians 1:4; 2 Corinthians 4:15). The G...

6._Whether we are afflicted. _From the circumstance that before the clause _our hope of you is steadfast, _there is introduced the connecting particle _and, _Erasmus has conceived the idea, that some word must be understood to correspond with those words — _for your consolation and salvation _— in this way, _whether we are afflicted, _IT IS_for your consolation. _I think it, however, more probable, that the connecting particle _and _is used here as meaning: _Thus also, _or _in both cases. _He had already stated, that he received consolation in order that he might communicate it to others. Now he goes a step farther, and says, that he has a _steadfast hope, _that they _would be partakers of the consolation _Besides, some of the most ancient Greek manuscripts introduce immediately after the first clause this statement — _and our hope of you is steadfast. _(227)

1-11 We are encouraged to come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. The Lord is able to give peace to the troubled conscience, and to calm the raging passions of the soul. These blessings are given by him, as the Father of his redeemed family. It is our Saviour who says, Let not your heart be troubled. All comforts come from God, and our sweetest comforts are in him. He speaks peace to souls by granting the free remission of sins; and he comforts them by the enlivening influences of the Holy Spirit, and by the rich mercies of his grace. He is able to bind up the broken-hearted, to heal the most painful wounds, and also to give hope and joy under the heaviest sorrows. The favours God bestows on us, are not only to make us cheerful, but also that we may be useful to others. He sends comforts enough to support such as simply trust...

Verse 2 Corinthians 1:6. _AND WHETHER WE BE AFFLICTED_] See note on 2 Corinthians 1:4. _WHICH IS EFFECTUAL_] There is a strange and unusual variation in the MSS. and versions in this passage. Perhaps the whole should be read thus: _For if we be afflicted, it is for your_ _encouragement and salvation; and if we be comforted, it is also_ _for your encouragement, which exerted itself by enduring the same_ _sufferings which we also suffer_. This transposition of the _middle_ and _last_ clauses is authorized by the best MSS. and versions. The meaning seems to be this: While ye abide faithful to God, no suffering can be prejudicial to you; on the contrary, it will be advantageous; God having your comfort and sal

AND WHETHER WE BE AFFLICTED - If we are afflicted; or, our affliction is for this purpose. This verse is designed to show one of the reasons of the sufferings which the apostles had endured; and it is a happy specimen of Paul’s skill in his epistles. He shows that all his trials were for their welfare and would turn to their benefit. He suffered that they might be comforted; he was afflicted for their advantage. This assurance would tend to conciliate their favor, and strengthen their affection for him, as it would show them that he was disinterested. We are under the deepest obligations of gratitude to one who suffers for us; and there is nothing that will bind us more tenderly to anyone than the fact that he has been subjected to great calamity and trial on our account. This is one of the reasons why the Christian feels so tenderly his obligation to the Lord Jesus Christ. It is for you...

EXPOSITION Address and greeting (2 Corinthians 1:1, 2 Corinthians 1:2). Thanksgiving for the comfort sent to him by God, wherein, as in his affliction which rendered it necessary, they sympathetically shared (2 Corinthians 1:3). He has earned a right to their sympathy by his sincerity (2 Corinthians 1:12). His change of purpose with respect to a visit to Corinth, with digression on the unchangeableness of the gospel (2 Corinthians 1:15). Explanation of his Reasons ...

AND WHETHER WE BE AFFLICTED IT IS FOR YOUR CONSOLATION,.... The apostle repeats and explains the end of both his comforts and his troubles, and shows, by a dilemma, a strong way of arguing, that the afflictions and consolations, the adversity and prosperity of him, and the other ministers of the Gospel, were for the good of the saints: and it is as if he should say, when you see us continue to preach the Gospel with so much boldness and cheerfulness, amidst so many reproaches, afflictions, and persecutions, you must be the more established in the faith, and confirmed in the truth of the Gospel; and this cannot fail of ministering much peace, satisfaction, and comfort to your minds. This animates you to hold fast the rejoicing of your hope, and the profession of your faith firm unto the end; and with the greater cheerfulness and pleasure meet with, and endure afflictions yourselves for th...

2 Corinthians 1:1. _Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God,_ Paul is very careful to remind the Corinthians of that fact, since some of them had gone the length of denying his apostleship altogether. 2 Corinthians 1:1. _And Timothy our brother,_ Whom, in all humility, he associates with himself, although he was a younger man, of far less consequence; but Paul loved him very much, and therefore he put his name at the beginning of this Epistle side by side with his own: «and Timothy our brother,» 2 Corinthians 1:1. Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia: grace be to you and peace

SALVATION (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 1:16). _...

2 CORINTHIANS 1:6-7 paraklh,sewj kai. swthri,aj\ ei;te parakalou,meqa( u`pe.r th/j u`mw/n paraklh,sewj th/j evnergoume,nhj evn u`pomonh|/ tw/n auvtw/n paqhma,twn w-n kai. h`mei/j pa,scomen) (7) kai. h` evlpi.j h`mw/n bebai,a u`pe.r u`mw/n eivdo,tej {A} The reading adopted as text is strongly supported by (î46) a A C P Y 0243 1739 1881 itr vg syrp copsa, bo eth _al_; it alone gives the needed connection between ver. 2 Corinthians 1:6 and ver....