1 Thessalonians 4:18

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Formal EquivalenceSource: American Standard VersionBest for: Word studies and original-language research

🎯 Translation Approach

A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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💎 Distinctive Features

Integrated Strong's numbering: Links English terms to underlying Hebrew and Greek words for deeper lexical study.
Formal equivalence: Prioritizes close alignment with source-language forms and structures.
Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
Study-focused formatting: Optimized for reference and research rather than casual reading.

✅ Strengths

High fidelity to original languages
Includes Strong's numbers for precise word study
Consistent lexical choices aid exegesis
Stable, longstanding scholarly text

⚠️ Considerations

Archaic language reduces readability
Older textual basis compared to some modern translations
Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

1 Thess 5:14 : 14 And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be longsuffering toward all.
1 Thess 5:11 : 11 Wherefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as also ye do.
Heb 10:24-25 : 24 and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and good works; 25 not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting [one another]; and so much the more, as ye see the day drawing nigh.
Luke 21:28 : 28 But when these things begin to come to pass, look up, and lift up your heads; because your redemption draweth nigh.
Isa 40:1-2 : 1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. 2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem; and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she hath received of Jehovah's hand double for all her sins.
Heb 12:12 : 12 Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the palsied knees;

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

1 Thess 4:12-17
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12that ye may walk becomingly toward them that are without, and may have need of nothing.
13But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that fall asleep; that ye sorrow not, even as the rest, who have no hope.
14For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also that are fallen asleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
15For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we that are alive, that are left unto the coming of the Lord, shall in no wise precede them that are fallen asleep.
16For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven, with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first;
17then we that are alive, that are left, shall together with them be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
1 Thess 5:10-11
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10who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
11Wherefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as also ye do.
2 Cor 1:4-7
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4who comforteth us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort them that are in any affliction, through the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
5For as the sufferings of Christ abound unto us, even so our comfort also aboundeth through Christ.
6But whether we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or whether we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which worketh in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer:
7and our hope for you is stedfast; knowing that, as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also are ye of the comfort.
2 Thess 2:16-17
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16Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
17comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word.
1 Thess 3:7
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7for this cause, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith:
Rom 1:12
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12that is, that I with you may be comforted in you, each of us by the other's faith, both yours and mine.
2 Cor 7:13
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13Therefore {G5124} we have been comforted: And in our comfort we joyed the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit hath been refreshed by you all.
Rom 14:19
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19So then let us follow after things which make for peace, and things whereby we may edify one another.
Matt 5:4
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4Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
2 Cor 7:6
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6Nevertheless he that comforteth the lowly, [even] God, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
Rom 15:4-5
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4For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that through patience and through comfort of the scriptures we might have hope.
5Now the God of patience and of comfort grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus:
2 Cor 5:8
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8we are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
2 Cor 4:14
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14knowing that he that raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also with Jesus, and shall present us with you.
2 Cor 13:11
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11Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfected; be comforted; be of the same mind; live in peace: and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
1 Thess 5:14
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14And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be longsuffering toward all.
2 Thess 2:1
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1Now we beseech you, brethren, touching the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together unto him;
1 Cor 14:3
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3But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men edification, and exhortation, and consolation.
John 14:18
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18I will not leave you desolate: I come unto you.
1 Thess 2:11
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11as ye know how we [dealt with] each one of you, as a father with his own children, exhorting you, and encouraging [you], and testifying,
1 Cor 15:52
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52in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
Phil 4:4
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4Rejoice in the Lord always: again I will say, Rejoice.
1 Cor 14:31
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31For ye all can prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be exhorted;
2 Cor 4:12
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12So then death {G3303} worketh in us, but life in you.
1 John 4:11
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11Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
1 Thess 5:4
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4But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief:
1 Pet 4:13
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13but insomuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings, rejoice; that at the revelation of his glory also ye may rejoice with exceeding joy.
2 Cor 4:17-18
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69%
17For our light affliction, which is for the moment, worketh for us {G2596} more and {G5236} more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;
18while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Rom 12:15
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15Rejoice with them that rejoice; {G2532} weep with them that weep.
Jude 1:17
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17But ye, beloved, remember ye the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
2 Cor 5:6
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6Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord
Phil 2:18
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18and in the same manner do ye also joy, and rejoice with me.
2 Cor 2:7
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7so that contrariwise ye should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his overmuch sorrow.
2 Thess 1:7
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7and to you that are afflicted rest with us, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with the angels of his power in flaming fire,
2 Cor 5:4
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4For indeed we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened; not for that we would be unclothed, but that we would be clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up of life.
1 John 4:17
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17Herein {G5129} is {G3326} {G2257} love made perfect with us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as he is, even so are we in this world.
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2and sent Timothy, our brother and God's minister in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort [you] concerning your faith;
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31And when they had read it, they rejoiced for the consolation.