^{3 Ref} Blessed `is' God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the mercies, and God of all comfort,

^{4 Ref} who is comforting us in all our tribulation, for our being able to comfort those in any tribulation through the comfort with which we are comforted ourselves by God;

^{5 Ref} because, as the sufferings of the Christ do abound to us, so through the Christ doth abound also our comfort;