2 Thessalonians 2:17
encourage your hearts and establish you in every good word and work.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.
In Context
Cross References
Isaiah 51:12I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are thou, that thou are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who shall be made as grass,
Isaiah 61:1The Spirit of lord LORD is upon me, because LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind (LXX/NT), and
Isaiah 66:13As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you, and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
Romans 15:13Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, for ye to abound in hope in the power of Holy Spirit.
1 Corinthians 1:8who will also confirm you until the end, irreproachable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 1:21Now he who establishes us with you in Christ, and who anointed us, is God.
Matthew Henry on 2 Thessalonians 2:17
Apostolic Prayer. ( a. d. 52.) 16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, 17 Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work. In these words we have the apostle's earnest prayer for them, in which observe, I. To whom he prays: Our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father. We may and should direct our prayers, not only to God the Father, through the mediation of our Lord… Read the whole commentary →