¹⁷ and if children, also heirs^(A)—heirs of God and coheirs with Christ—if indeed we suffer with him^(B) so that we may also be glorified with him.

⁵ For just as the sufferings^(A) of Christ^(B) overflow to us, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.^{(C) 6} If we are afflicted,^(D) it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings that we suffer.^{(E) 7} And our hope^(F) for you is firm, because we know that as you share^(G) in the sufferings, so you will also share in the comfort.

Paul’s Ministry

²⁴ Now I rejoice in my sufferings^(A) for you, and I am completing in my flesh what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for his body,^(B) that is, the church.

¹³ Instead, rejoice as you share in the sufferings of Christ,^(A) so that you may also rejoice with great joy when his glory is revealed.^(B)

About the Elders

5 I exhort the elders among you as a fellow elder and witness^(A) to the sufferings of Christ, as well as one who shares in the glory about to be revealed:^(B)

⁹ Resist him,^(A) firm in the faith, knowing that the same kind of sufferings are being experienced by your fellow believers throughout the world.