3 Blessed, be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassions, and God of all encouragement,

4 Who encourageth us in all our tribulation, to the end we may be able to encourage them who are in any tribulation through means of the encouragement wherewith we, ourselves, are encouraged by God.

5 Because, even as the sufferings of the Christ overflow unto us, so, through the Christ, overfloweth, our encouragement also.