5For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.
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Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:
That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, …
Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. …
According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 3-6)After the foregoing preface, the apostle begins with the narrative of God’s goodness to him and his fellow-labourers in their manifold tribulations, which he speaks of by way of thanksgiving to God, and to advance the divine glory (2 Cor. 1:3-6); and it is fit that in all things, and in the first place, God be glorified. Observe, I. The object of the apostle’s thanksgiving, to whom he offers up bl…
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