2Cor 1:6, 11:1, 16-17 | ESV | STEP | If we are afflicted , it is for your comfort and salvation ; and if we are comforted , it is for your comfort , which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer .

a 2 Tim. 2:10; [ch. 4:15; 12:15; Eph. 3:13]

2 Corinthians 1:6

6 ^aIf we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer.

2 Corinthians 11:1

Paul and the False Apostles

1 I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear with me!

2 Corinthians 11:16-17

Paul’s Sufferings as an Apostle

16 I repeat, ^blet no one think me foolish. But even if you do, accept me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little. 17 What I am saying ^cwith this boastful confidence, ^dI say not as the Lord would ^{▼▼Greek not according to the Lord} but as a fool.