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2 Corinthians 1 Summary
Comfort in Affliction and Divine Consolation
Paul greets the church at Corinth and praises God as the Father of mercies who comforts believers in their tribulations. He explains that the sufferings endured by the apostles serve to bring consolation and salvation to the Corinthians, and his hope is that they will share in both the sufferings and consolation of Christ. Paul describes a severe trial in Asia where he and his companions despaired of life, but God delivered them through faith in His power to raise the dead, and he looks to God's continued deliverance.
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Key verses
2 Corinthians 1:3-4
“Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.”
2 Corinthians 1:5
“For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.”
2 Corinthians 1:9-10
“But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;”
2 Corinthians 1:20
“For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.”
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