3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and God of all comfort,
4 Who comforteth us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort them who are in any affliction, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our comfort also aboundeth through Christ.
6 And whether we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or whether we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which is effectual in the patient enduring the same sufferings which we also suffer.
7 And our hope concerning you is stedfast, knowing that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also of the comfort.