2Cor 1:6, Phili 3:8, Col 1:9, 3:14 | ISV | STEP | If we suffer, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we are suffering.

2 Corinthians 1:6

6 If we suffer, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we are suffering.2Cor 4:15

Philippians 3:8

8 What is more, I continue to consider all these things as a loss for the sake of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. It is because of him that I have experienced the loss of all those things. Indeed, I consider them rubbish ^{▼▼Or dung} in order to gain ChristIsa 53:11; Jer 9:23-24; John 17:3; 1Cor 2:2; Col 2:2

Colossians 1:9

9 Christ Is Above AllFor this reason, since the day we heard about this, we have not stopped praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the full knowledge of God's ^{▼▼Lit. his} will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,Rom 12:2; 1Cor 1:5; Eph 1:8, 15-16; Col 1:3-4

Colossians 3:14

14 Above all, clothe yourselves with ^{▼▼The Gk. lacks clothe yourselves with} love, which ties everything together in unity.John 13:34; Rom 13:8; 1Cor 13:1-13; Eph 4:3; 5:2; Col 2:2; 1Thes 4:9; 1Tim 1:5; 1Pet 4:8; 1John 3:23; 4:21