3 Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all encouragement,
4 who encourages us in all our affliction, in order for us to be able to encourage those in every affliction, through the encouragement of which we ourselves are encouraged by God.
5 Because, as the sufferings of the Christ abound to us, so also our encouragement abounds through the Christ.
6 But whether we are oppressed, it is for your encouragement and salvation, which works by endurance from the same sufferings that we also experience (and our hope for you is steadfast), or we are encouraged, it is for your encourage
7 knowing that, as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also of the encouragement.