who 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.
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A pattern ofJob 2:13
Presence before words: the comfort we receive equips us to sit with others the way Job's friends first did.
“So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.”
The same thread1 Corinthians 12:26
Comfort flows along the body: when one member suffers, all the members suffer with it.
“When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. Or when one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.”