2nd Corinthians Chapter 1 verse 5 Holy Bible
For as the sufferings of Christ abound unto us, even so our comfort also aboundeth through Christ.
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For as we undergo more of the pain which Christ underwent, so through Christ does our comfort become greater.
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Because, even as the sufferings of the Christ abound towards us, so through the Christ does our encouragement also abound.
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For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.
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For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.
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because, as the sufferings of the Christ do abound to us, so through the Christ doth abound also our comfort;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 5. - As the sufferings of Christ abound in us; rather, unto us. "The sufferings of Christ" are the sufferings which he endured in the days of his flesh, and they were not exhausted by him, but overflow to us who have to suffer as he suffered, bearing about with us his dying, that we may share his life (2 Corinthians 4:10). The idea is, not that he is suffering in us and with us (though the truth of his intense sympathy with his suffering Church may be shadowed forth in some such terms, Matthew 25:40-45; Acts 9:4), but that we have "a fellowship in his sufferings" (Philippians 3:17); Galatians 2:20, "I have been crucified with Christ;" Hebrews 13:13, "Bearing his reproach." Our sufferings are the sufferings of Christ because we suffer as he suffered (1 Peter 4:13) and in the same cause. Aboundeth by Christ. If his sufferings, as it were, overflow to us, so too is he the Source of our comfort, in that he sendeth us the Comforter (John 14:16-18).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(5) Abound in us.--Better, overflow to us. The sufferings of Christ, as in 1Peter 4:13; 1Peter 5:1 (the Greek in 1Peter 1:11 expresses a different thought), are those which He endured on earth; those which, in His mysterious union with His Church, are thought as passing from Him to every member of His body, that they too may drink of the cup that He drank of. For the thought that in our sufferings, of whatever nature, we share Christ's sufferings, comp. 2Corinthians 4:10; Philippians 3:10; Colossians 1:24; 1Peter 4:13. The use of the plural, "our tribulations," "overflow to us," is dependent partly on the fact that St. Paul has joined Timotheus with himself in his salutation, and partly on the fact that it is his usual way of speaking of himself unless he has distinctly to assert his own individuality. . . .
