2 Corinthians 1:6 (WEB)

Passage

But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.

Nearby Context

2 Corinthians 1:4 who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

2 Corinthians 1:5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.

2 Corinthians 1:6 But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.

2 Corinthians 1:7 Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so also are you of the comfort.

2 Corinthians 1:8 For we don’t desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "afflicted", "comfort", "salvation", "comforted", "produces", "patient", and "enduring". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "afflicted" and "comfort", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 5's "For as the sufferings of Christ abound..." into verse 7's "Our hope for you is steadfast knowing...", so "afflicted" and "comfort" belong inside that flow. In 2 Corinthians context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "afflicted" and "comfort" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.