7And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.


In Context

4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.

5 For just as the sufferings of Christ flow over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.

6 If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer.

7 And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.

8 We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about the hardships we suffered in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life.

9 Indeed, in our hearts we felt the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead.

2nd Corinthians 1:7 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:7And our hope of you [is] stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so [shall ye be] also of the consolation.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:7(and our hope for you is sure;) or whether we are encouraged, it is for your encouragement and salvation: knowing that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also of the encouragement.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:7That our hope for you may be steadfast: knowing that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so shall you be also of the consolation.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:7and our hope for you is stedfast; knowing that, as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also are ye of the comfort.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:7and our hope for you is stedfast; knowing that, as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also are ye of the comfort.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:7And our hope of you is steadfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:7Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so also are you of the comfort.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:7and our hope is stedfast for you, knowing that even as ye are partakers of the sufferings — so also of the comfort.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:7And our hope of you is steadfast, knowing, that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so shall you be also of the consolation.