Verse of the Day — Monday, July 13, 2026
2 Corinthians 1:4
2 Corinthians 1:4. The Verse of the Day for Monday, July 13, 2026, with a short reflection.
Comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
2 Corinthians 1:4
What this verse means
God meets us in every kind of trouble with comfort, and that comfort is not meant to stop with us: having been steadied by him, we become able to steady others going through their own hard seasons.
This verse sits inside the opening blessing of the letter, verses 3 through 7, where Paul praises "the God of all comfort." The logic runs like a current: comfort flows from God into us, and then through us out to others. What we receive in our affliction becomes the very thing we can offer to someone else in theirs.
Paul is not writing from a calm study. He addresses a strained congregation in Corinth, and just a few lines later, in verse 8, he describes a recent affliction so heavy that he "despaired even of life." The consolation he praises here was forged in real suffering, not imagined from a safe distance. He knows the weight of what he is naming.
One word carries the passage. The Greek *paraklēsis*, with its verb *parakaleō*, means to call someone alongside: comfort, consolation, and encouragement all held in a single term. It sounds again and again in these few verses, like a drumbeat. It shares its root with the name given to the Spirit, the Paraclete, the one called to our side. To be comforted, in this sense, is to have Someone come near.
