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NASB | 2 Corinthians 1:5 For just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Corinthians 1:5 For just as Christ's sufferings are ours in abundance [as they overflow to His followers], so also our comfort [our reassurance, our encouragement, our consolation] is abundant through Christ [it is truly more than enough to endure what we must]. |
Subject: 2 Corinthians- What is 'suffering' |
Bible Note: Talmid..Thank you for your post. By considering your chosen text, I gather you believe we should read Isa. 53:10 as what we too should experience? 2 Corinthians 1 says we will share His sufferings (by association) but that we will also share His comfort and deliverence (by association). However, Jesus did not 'suffer' from sickness and desease...until He took ours. And suffering was not forced upon Him, He accepted it when it was time. "My time has not come" and later He said 'No man takes my life from me, I lay it down'. Isaiah 53:4-6 states that Jesus took our sicknesses and deseases through the atonement..Just like our sin...(see Mathew Henry) You will also notice when you read this commentary that although Matthew Henry acknowledges that healing is part of the atonement, he 'issues a disclaimer' which had absolutely NO scriptural references to support the disclaimer. This disclaimer , and I agree, instructs the believer to search the scriptures regarding healing. The 'suffering' of believers should be carefully searched out scripturally because I believe traditions teach that 'all bad things' are 'suffering with or for Christ'. Paul in 2 Corinthians makes NO mention of sickness and desease as part of the sufferings, so I do not believe we should add it where it is not stated. Rest...See Hebrews chapter 3 and 4 and listen carefully to 'rest'. 1.Seek to define scriptural rest. 2.Seek to determine how to achieve it. talib...tradition has 'penciled' in sickness and desease where it is does not belong. The reason I believe this is because of Isaiah 53. God chose to (by secondary nuance) add healing to the statement of Jesus atonement. God bless |