What Does 2 Corinthians 1:4 Mean in the King James?
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.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The “tribulation” you endure and the “trouble” another person carries are the same Greek word: comfort crosses that shared pressure.
THE MEANING
God meets you within every pressure, and that consolation equips you to meet another person within theirs. The pressure does not need to disappear before comfort can be real or shared. The same word under “tribulation” and “trouble” reveals the shared ground on which comfort moves.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that comfort means your own pressure is over, or that what consoles you belongs only to you.
THE ROOT
θλῖψις
thlipsis
GROWS FROM
θλιβ-
thlib-
To press, squeeze, or afflict.
“tribulation / trouble” in this verse is thlipsis. The KJV renders the same Greek noun θλῖψις (thlipsis, “pressure, distress”) first as “tribulation” and then as “trouble.” English makes the two conditions sound separate, while the verse says comfort received in your pressure can meet someone else in that same pressure.
ALSO GROWS
thlibō: To press or afflict.
θλίβω
This verb makes the pressure inside “tribulation” and “trouble” visible: both describe being pressed.
thlibomenoi: Those being pressed or afflicted.
θλιβόμενοι
The related form appears in “troubled on every side” (2 Corinthians 4:8), echoing the pressure in which comfort is received and shared.
παρακαλέω
parakaleō
GROWS FROM
καλε-
kale-
The base καλε- (kale-, “call, summon, invite”) appears in a word family whose uses include comfort, consolation, and urging.
Παρακαλέω (parakaleō, “comfort, console, urge”) names comfort as active consolation, not merely a private feeling that waits for circumstances to improve. The same word family connects comfort received with a sustaining presence and with consolation shared as an appeal.
ALSO GROWS
paraklēsis: Comfort, consolation, appeal.
παράκλησις
The related noun names the comfort God supplies in the preceding verse, which becomes something you can share here.
paraklētos: Advocate, helper, comforter.
παράκλητος
This related title, used in John 14:16, shows the comfort word family can describe a sustaining presence as well as consolation.
THE PATTERN
Comfort originates in God, meets people within distress, and becomes a shared word or presence.
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;Wherefore comfort one another with these words.THE THREAD
Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;The word translated “comfort” in verse 3 is παράκλησις (paraklēsis, “comfort, consolation”), from the same word family as “comforteth” in verse 4. Verse 3 names the source; verse 4 shows the movement: what God gives becomes what you can give while pressure is still present.
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