Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.
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For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
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For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
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While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
And when we had accomplished those days, we departed and went our way; and they all brought us on our way, with wives and children, till we were out of the city: and we kneeled down on the shore, and prayed.
Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.