3 Blessed [is] God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and God of all comfort, 4 who is comforting us in all our tribulation, for our being able to comfort those in any tribulation through the comfort with which we are comforted ourselves by God; 5 because, as the sufferings of the Christ abound to us, so through the Christ our comfort also abounds; 6 and whether we be in tribulation, [it is] for your comfort and salvation, that is worked in the enduring of the same sufferings that we also suffer; whether we are comforted, [it is] for your comfort and salvation; 7 and our hope [is] steadfast for you, knowing that even as you are partakers of the sufferings—so also of the comfort.