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3 May the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the Father of compassionate feelings and the God of all comfort, be praised.
4 He comforts us in all our troubles so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any [kind of] trouble, through the comfort we ourselves have received from Him.
5 For just as we experience an overflow of Christ’s sufferings, even so we also experience an overflow of comfort through Christ.
6 But if we experience trouble, it is in order [to provide] for your comfort and salvation. Or, if we are comforted, it is in order [to provide] for your comfort [also], which enables you to endure patiently the same sufferings we experience.
7 And our hope for you is firm, for we know that just as you share our sufferings, so you will also [share] our comfort.