2 Thessalonians 2:17

console your hearts, and strengthen you to do and to say all that is right.

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Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.

In Context

16And may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and, in his loving kindness, gave us unfailing consolation and good ground for hope,

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Cross References

Romans 15:13May God, who inspires our hope, grant you perfect happiness and peace in your faith, until you are filled with this hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 1:8And God himself will strengthen you to the end, so that at the day of our Lord Jesus Christ you may be found blameless.

2 Corinthians 1:21God who brings us, with you, into close union with Christ, and who consecrated us,

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 →

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