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3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the merciful Father and the all-comforting God,
4 who comforts me in every sorrow I have, so that I can comfort people who are in sorrow with the comfort with which I am comforted by God.
5 For just as my sufferings for Christ are running over the cup, so through Christ my comfort is running over too.
6 If I am in sorrow, it is on behalf of your comfort and salvation; if I am comforted, it is for the comfort that is experienced by you in your patient endurance of the same sort of sufferings that I am enduring too.
7 My hope for you is well founded; because I know that just as you, brothers, are sharers of my sufferings, so you will be sharers of my comfort too.