2 Corinthians 1:4

God comforts believers in their troubles so that they, in turn, can comfort others with the same comfort they received. Suffering is not wasted but equips us for ministry.

Cross-references · 23

• 1 Th 5:11Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.
• 2 Th 2:16–17Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
• Isa 51:12“I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass?
• 2 Cor 7:6–7Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
• Isa 40:1“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.
• Ps 32:7You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.
• John 14:18I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.
• Ps 34:2–6My soul shall boast in Yahweh. The humble shall hear of it, and be glad.
• John 14:16I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever, —
• Heb 12:12Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,
• Isa 12:1In that day you will say, “I will give thanks to you, Yahweh; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me.
• Isa 66:12–14For Yahweh says, “Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream; and you will nurse. You will be carried on her side, and will be dandled on her knees.
• John 14:26But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.
• Ps 32:5I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn’t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
• Isa 52:9Break out into joy, sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem; for Yahweh has comforted his people. He has redeemed Jerusalem.
• 2 Cor 1:5–6For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.
• Ps 66:16Come, and hear, all you who fear God. I will declare what he has done for my soul.
• Ps 86:17Show me a sign of your goodness, that those who hate me may see it, and be shamed, because you, Yahweh, have helped me, and comforted me.
• 1 Th 4:18Therefore comfort one another with these words.
• Isa 51:3For Yahweh has comforted Zion. He has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Yahweh. Joy and gladness will be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
• 2 Cor 7:13Therefore we have been comforted. In our comfort we rejoiced the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.
• Isa 49:10They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them: for he who has mercy on them will lead them. He will guide them by springs of water.
• Phil 1:14and that most of the brothers in the Lord, being confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word of God without fear.

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