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2 Corinthians 1:6,7

2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 Corinthians 1:6 it is for your comfort. The opponents maintained that Paul’s sufferings disqualified him as an apostle. Paul maintains that God uses his sufferings to strengthen other believers.

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  • A Textual Commentary On The Greek New Testament by Bruce M. Metzger

    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....

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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. Perhap...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. TRUE MINISTRY AS MANIFESTED IN THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF THE APOSTLE. Chapter s 1-7 1. The Introduction CHAPTER 1:1-7 _ 1. The Salutation. (2 Corinthians 1:1)_ 2. The...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    SALUTATION AND INTRODUCTION. 2 Corinthians 1:1 f. Timothy, whose approaching visit to Corinth had been announced in 1 Corinthians 4:17; 1 Corinthians 16:11, is now again in Paul's company, and

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through God's will, and Timothy, the brother you all know, send this letter to the Church of God which is at Corinth, together with all God's dedicated people who are...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    COMFORTED TO COMFORT (2 Corinthians 1:1-7)...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    WHETHER. if. Greek. _eite,_ App-118. AFFLICTED. Greek. _thliho._ Occurs here, 2 Corinthians 4:8; 2 Corinthians 7:5; Matthew 7:14. Mar 3:9....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation_ The same may be said of every kind of suffering endured for the cause of God and of truth. It is not merely, as in Hebrews 12:6...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The mutual interdependence of St Paul and the Corinthian Church 3. _Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ_ Two feelings rise at once in the Apostle's mind. The first is an overwhel...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    6. The text is much confused as to the order of the clauses. Our choice lies between εἲτε δὲ θλιβόμεθα, ὑπὲρ τῆς ὑμῶν παρακλήσεως [καὶ σωτηρίας] τῆς ἐνεργουμένης ἐν ὑπομονῇ τῶν αὐτῶν παθημάτων ὦν καὶ...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΘΛΙΒΌΜΕΘΑ _praes. ind. pass. от_ ΘΛΊΒΩ (G2346) _pass._ быть огорченным, страдать от давления (_см._ 2 Corinthians 1:4). ΎΠΈΡ с _gen._, "имея в виду" (IBG, 65). Указывает на то, к чему некто стремится...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    WHICH IS EFFECTUAL— or _effected._ Instead of _salvation,_ Mr. Locke reads _relief;_ as it signifies here only (says he) deliverance from their present sorrow....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    Butler's Comments SECTION 1 Affliction (2 Corinthians 1:1-11) 1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother. To the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the s...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Comfort in Affliction Scripture_ 2 Corinthians 1:3-11. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort; 4 who comforteth us...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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 conso...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    1 Timothy is associated with Paul in this introduction, as Sosthenes is in the former epistle, yet it is evident that Paul himself wrote both epistles, for he continually refers to himself in them, an...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    AND WHETHER, etc.] RV 'But whether we be afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or whether we be comforted, it is for your comfort, which worketh in the patient endurance of the same sufferi...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    INTRODUCTORY SECTION 2 Corinthians 1:1. Salutation and Thanksgiving After the usual epistolary introduction, St. Paul makes pointed reference to a severe trouble he has lately endured, and gives tha...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    PARAPHRASE. 'We give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Fount of all blessing and comfort, (4) for the comfort and courage He gives us in our trials, whereby we are enabled to com...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ ABOUT 2 CORINTHIANS AUTHOR Paul wrote the letter called 2 Corinthians. See 2 Corinthians 1:1 and 2 Corinthians 10:1. The letter...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    AND WHETHER WE BE AFFLICTED... — The better MSS. present some variations in the order of the clauses, some of them giving the words “and our hope of you is steadfast” after “which we also suffer” in t...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 1 SUFFERING AND CONSOLATION. 2 Corinthians 1:1 (R.V) THE greeting with which St. Paul introduces his Epistles is much alike in them all, but it never becomes a mere formality, and ought not...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    We follow the reading of the Revisers (see crit. note) and translate: _But whether we be afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or whether we be comforted, it is for your comfort, which work...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    SHARING COMFORT IN AFFLICTION 2 Corinthians 1:1 This was a circular letter, including in its scope all the scattered communities in the district. _Grace_ was the usual salutation of the West, _Peace_...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The second letter to the Corinthians was evidently the outcome of the first. The apostle opened with the usual introduction, laying emphasis on his apostleship by the will of God, coupled with the sal...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    THE GOD OF ALL COMFORT Paul went on to thank God and honor him as the source of mercy and comfort. The singer of Israel sang of God in Psalms 86:15. "But You, O Lord, are a God full of compassion, and...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (4) And whether we be afflicted, [it is] for your consolation and salvation, which is (d) effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, [it is] for...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Or whether we be exhorted, [1] for your exhortation and salvation. These words are not in the present Greek copies; the omission is not of moment, being in a manner a repetition of what is in the same...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (5) For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ. (6) And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the endu...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    The apostle writes the second Epistle to the Corinthians under the influence of the consolations of Christ consolations experienced when the troubles which came upon him in Asia were at their height;...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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 a...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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 co...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Blessed be God_, &c. A solemn and beautiful introduction, highly suitable to the apostolical spirit; _even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ_ Who is his _only-begotten_ Son, both as to his divine a...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    IT IS FOR YOUR CONSOLATION AND SALVATION; our affliction is endured in behalf of you, as of all the churches, and redounds to your comfort and salvation. WHICH IS EFFECTUAL; which salvation of yours-...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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 CONSOL...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Thanksgiving and comfort:...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    It is again with apostolic authority that Paul writes, the will of God, a predominant matter in the epistle. While Paul uses his authority in lowliness, yet he must assert God's authority in writing....

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    IS EFFECTUAL: Or, is wrought...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    AND WHETHER WE BE AFFLICTED, IT IS FOR YOUR CONSOLATION AND SALVATION; OUR SUFFERINGS TEND TO YOUR CONSOLATION AND SALVATION, your souls being upheld and supported by the sight of our boldness, and co...

  • McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries

    But whether we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or whether we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which worketh in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suff...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    2 Corinthians 1:6 Now G1161 if G1535 afflicted G2346 (G5743) for G5228 your G5216 consolation G3874 and G2532

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    GOD BOTH AFFLICTS AND COMFORTS ALL WHO ARE HIS FOR THEIR SALVATION (2 CORINTHIANS 1:3). The verses that follow lay the foundation of what he will say throughout the letter. At first sight they might a...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘But whether we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or whether we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which he works in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also su...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    2 Corinthians 1:6. BUT WHETHER WE BE AFFLICTED, IT IS FOR YOUR COMFORT AND SALVATION; OR WHETHER WE BE COMFORTED, IT IS FOR YOUR COMFORT, WHICH WORKETH IN YOU THE PATIENT ENDURANCE OF THE SAME SUFFERI...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    WHETHER (ειτε)--OR (ειτε). The alternatives in Paul's experience (afflicted θλιβομεθα, comforted παρακαλουμεθα) work out for their good when they are called on to endure like sufferings "which we...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

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

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    2 Corinthians 1:1. _Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:_ Paul is ver...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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 apostleshi...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Paul's interest in the Corinthian Christians and his encouragement to them in Christ. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul, Timothy, Silvanus. CONCLUSION: Man's extremity is God's op...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    2 Corinthians 1:1. _Paul and Timothy our brother._ It was proper that Timothy should be named, he having been specially sent to Corinth. _With all the saints which are in Achaia;_ in which peninsula t...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    IF WE SUFFER. Compare 2 Corinthians 1:8. IT IS FOR YOUR HELP. The example of Paul's suffering and endurance, and how the Lord made it all work out to His glory, ought to fill them with hope! Compare 1...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And whether we be afflicted … or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation._ PERSONAL SUFFERINGS I. Are often experienced in the rest of enterprises (2 Corinthians 11:23; 2...

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    SECOND EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 1 CONTENTS He consoles the Corinthians, whom in the First Epistle he had sharply rebuked, and absolves the excommunicated fornicator, who was now penitent....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL NOTES_ 2 Corinthians 1:3.—John calls the Son a “Comforter” (1 John 2:1). Christ calls the Spirit a “Comforter” (John 14:16, “another” also implying that He Himself had been such to the disci...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Tonight let's turn to 2 Corinthians, chapter 1. The church of Corinth had been a divided church. There was a lot of carnality, a lot of problems in their doctrines that prompted Paul's first epistle,...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 3:21; 2 Corinthians 1:4; 2 Corinthians 4:15; 2 Corinthians 4:17;...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    And whether we be, etc. The MSS. differ in their arrangement of this verse. The main points of difference may be seen by comparing the A. V. and Rev. The sense is not affected by the variation. Is ef...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    And whether we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation — For your present comfort, your present and future salvation. Or whether we are comforted, it is for your comfort — That we may be t...

  • William Burkitt's Expository Notes

    As if the apostle had said, "What sufferings soever. have met with in my ministerial office, you have the benefit of them, and special advantage by them; and therefore you ought not to despise me upon...

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