2 Corinthians 1:1-5

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother, to the Assembly of God that is in Corinth, with all the holy ones who are in all Achaia:

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

Blessed is God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and God of all comfort,

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;

because, as the sufferings of the Christ abound to us, so through the Christ our comfort also abounds;