What Does 2 Corinthians 1:6 Mean?
And whether we are pressed, it is for your comfort and deliverance, which works in bearing up under the same sufferings that we also suffer; or whether we are comforted, it is for your comfort and deliverance.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.THE KEY
The pressure and the comfort both serve deliverance that is already working through shared endurance.
THE MEANING
Your affliction and your comfort both serve your consolation and deliverance. That deliverance is active as you endure the same suffering others also carry, so the pressure does not leave you alone or beyond its reach. Consolation strengthens this shared endurance.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that deliverance is absent until suffering ends: here, deliverance is at work in the enduring itself, and the suffering is shared.
THE ROOT
ὑπομονή
hypomonē
GROWS FROM
μένω
menō
remain, stay, abide
“bearing up under” in this verse is hypomonē. English endurance can sound like passive tolerance, but ὑπομονή (hypomonē, steadfast endurance) belongs to μένω (menō, remain or abide): the word pictures continuing to stay. The verse locates consolation and deliverance in persistence that is shared, even while suffering remains.
ALSO GROWS
menō: remain, stay, abide
μένω
As the base verb, it makes endurance a continuing state of remaining.
hypomenō: endure, remain under, persist
ὑπομένω
This related verb applies remaining to sustained pressure, clarifying the verse’s phrase in the endurance.
monē: dwelling, abiding place
μονή
This related word extends the family from continuing to remain to a place of staying.
σωτηρία
sōtēria
GROWS FROM
σῴζω
sōzō
rescue, preserve, bring to safety
The noun translated salvation belongs to the family of σῴζω (sōzō, deliver or rescue), which points to rescue and preservation. Here deliverance is linked to endurance and consolation as an active reality within the same suffering.
ALSO GROWS
sōzō: deliver, rescue, preserve
σῴζω
This verb names the rescue carried in the noun for deliverance.
sōtēr: rescuer, deliverer
σωτήρ
This related word names the one who delivers, keeping the sense of rescue concrete.
παράκλησις
paraklēsis
GROWS FROM
παρακαλε-
parakale-
comfort, urge, appeal
“your comfort” in this verse is paraklēsis. English consolation can sound like a feeling that follows hardship. The related verb παρακαλέω (parakaleō, comfort or urge) carries active support, and here that consolation works as people endure the same suffering.
ALSO GROWS
parakaleō: comfort, urge, appeal
παρακαλέω
This related verb appears in 2 Corinthians 1:4 for comfort shared among sufferers, showing consolation as active support.
paraklētos: helper, advocate, comforter
παράκλητος
This related word names a helper or advocate, showing the word family’s connection to support given through a person.
THE PATTERN
Scripture holds affliction together with active deliverance, endurance, and the knowledge that others bear the same pressure.
Many are the evils against the aligned one, but the LORD snatches him out of them all.And not only that, but we also boast in the pressures, knowing that they work out a bearing up under.Stand against him, firm in trust, seeing that the same sufferings are being carried through your kin in the world.THE THREAD
Who comforts us in all our pressure, so that we are able to comfort those in every pressure, through the same comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.Both verses use the παράκλησις and παρακαλέω word family: 1:4 speaks of God comforting (παρακαλέω, parakaleō, comfort or urge), while 1:6 names the consolation (παράκλησις, paraklēsis) working in endurance. The shared root reveals comfort as something received in suffering and then made available to others enduring the same pressure.
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