and if children, then heirs heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

And if children, then heirs heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.

And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.

We may feel the pain of falling back from a level of affluence to which we have grown accustomed, but most people in developed countries are still, by historical standards, extraordinarily well off.