For just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ. | For as we share abundantly in Christ's sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too. |
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us. | For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. |
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That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death. | That I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death. |
And not only this, but we also celebrate in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance; and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope. | Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope. |
So remove sorrow from your heart and keep pain away from your body, because childhood and the prime of life are fleeting. | Remove vexation from your heart, and put away pain from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity. |
However, it was our sicknesses that He Himself bore, And our pains that He carried; Yet we ourselves assumed that He had been afflicted, Struck down by God, and humiliated. | Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. |