Passage

Receiving comfort and comforting others

Source and translation

World English Bible, Protestant Edition · Public domain · en

⁴who 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 1:4World English Bible, Protestant Edition

The scene

The writers describe God comforting them in affliction so that they can comfort other afflicted people.

To understand

They have named God as the Father of mercies and God of all comfort. The next line describes both Christ’s sufferings and comfort through Christ as abundant among them.

A question

How is the comfort offered to others connected to what the writers receive?