2 Thessalonians 2:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Give you comfort and strength in every good work and word.

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  • 2 Thess 3:3 : 3 But the Lord is true, who will give you strength and keep you safe from evil.
  • 1 Thess 3:2 : 2 We sent Timothy, our brother and God's servant in the good news of Christ, to give you strength and comfort in your faith;
  • 1 Thess 3:13 : 13 So that your hearts may be strong and free from all sin before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
  • 2 Cor 1:3-6 : 3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort; 4 Who gives us comfort in all our troubles, so that we may be able to give comfort to others who are in trouble, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 5 For as we undergo more of the pain which Christ underwent, so through Christ does our comfort become greater. 6 But if we are troubled, it is for your comfort and salvation; or if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which takes effect through your quiet undergoing of the same troubles which we undergo:
  • 2 Cor 1:21 : 21 Now he who makes our faith strong together with you, in Christ, and has given us of his grace, is God;
  • Col 2:7 : 7 Rooted and based together in him, strong in the faith which the teaching gave you, giving praise to God at all times.
  • 2 Thess 2:16 : 16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father who had love for us and has given us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
  • Heb 13:9 : 9 Do not be turned away by different strange teachings, because it is good for your hearts to be made strong by grace, and not by meats, which were of no profit to those who took so much trouble over them.
  • Jas 1:21-22 : 21 For this reason, putting away all dirty behaviour and the overweight of evil, take into your souls without pride the word which, being planted there, is able to give you salvation. 22 But be doers of the word, and not only hearers of it, blinding yourselves with false ideas.
  • 1 Pet 5:10 : 10 And after you have undergone pain for a little time, the God of all grace who has given you a part in his eternal glory through Christ Jesus, will himself give you strength and support, and make you complete in every good thing;
  • 1 John 3:18 : 18 My little children, do not let our love be in word and in tongue, but let it be in act and in good faith.
  • Jude 1:24 : 24 Now to him who is able to keep you from falling, and to give you a place in his glory, free from all evil, with great joy,
  • Isa 51:3 : 3 For the Lord has given comfort to Zion: he has made glad all her broken walls; making her waste places like Eden, and changing her dry land into the garden of the Lord; joy and delight will be there, praise and the sound of melody.
  • Isa 51:12 : 12 I, even I, am your comforter: are you so poor in heart as to be in fear of man who will come to an end, and of the son of man who will be like grass?
  • Isa 57:15 : 15 For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.
  • Isa 61:1-2 : 1 The spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make the broken-hearted well, to say that the prisoners will be made free, and that those in chains will see the light again; 2 To give knowledge that the year of the Lord's good pleasure has come, and the day of punishment from our God; to give comfort to all who are sad;
  • Isa 62:7 : 7 And give him no rest, till he puts Jerusalem in her place to be praised in the earth.
  • Isa 66:13 : 13 As to one who is comforted by his mother, so will I give you comfort: and you will be comforted in Jerusalem.
  • Rom 1:11 : 11 For I have a strong desire to see you, and to give you some grace of the spirit, so that you may be made strong;
  • Rom 15:13 : 13 Now may the God of hope make you full of joy and peace through faith, so that all hope may be yours in the power of the Holy Spirit.
  • Rom 16:25 : 25 Now to him who is able to make you strong in agreement with the good news which I gave you and the preaching of Jesus Christ, in the light of the revelation of that secret which has been kept through times eternal,
  • 1 Cor 1:8 : 8 Who will give you strength to the end, to be free from all sin in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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    15 So then, brothers, be strong in purpose, and keep the teaching which has been given to you by word or by letter from us.

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    2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

    3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort;

    4 Who gives us comfort in all our troubles, so that we may be able to give comfort to others who are in trouble, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

    5 For as we undergo more of the pain which Christ underwent, so through Christ does our comfort become greater.

    6 But if we are troubled, it is for your comfort and salvation; or if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which takes effect through your quiet undergoing of the same troubles which we undergo:

    7 And our hope for you is certain; in the knowledge that as you take part in the troubles, so you will take part in the comfort.

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    2 We sent Timothy, our brother and God's servant in the good news of Christ, to give you strength and comfort in your faith;

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    7 For this cause, brothers, in all our trouble and grief we were comforted about you because of your faith;

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    18 So then, give comfort to one another with these words.

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    2 So that their hearts may be comforted, and that being joined together in love, they may come to the full wealth of the certain knowledge of the secret of God, even Christ,

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    11 Now may our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus make a way for us to come to you;

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    3 But the Lord is true, who will give you strength and keep you safe from evil.

    4 And we have faith in the Lord about you, that you are doing and will do the things about which we give you orders.

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    6 That the faith which you have in common with them may be working with power, in the knowledge of every good thing in you, for Christ.

    7 For I had great joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been made strong again through you, brother.

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    11 Even as you saw how, like a father with his children, we were teaching and comforting you all, and giving witness,

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    11 So then, go on comforting and building up one another, as you have been doing.

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    1 If then there is any comfort in Christ, any help given by love, any uniting of hearts in the Spirit, any loving mercies and pity,

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    20 For you are our glory and our joy.

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    16 Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times and in every way. May the Lord be with you all.

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    14 And our desire is that you will keep control over those whose lives are not well ordered, giving comfort to the feeble-hearted, supporting those with little strength, and putting up with much from all.

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    4 My words to you are without fear, I am full of pride on account of you: I have great comfort and joy in all our troubles.

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    6 But God who gives comfort to the poor in spirit gave us comfort by the coming of Titus;

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    17 So that the man of God may be complete, trained and made ready for every good work.

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    32 And now, I give you into the care of God and the word of his grace, which is able to make you strong and to give you your heritage among all the saints.

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    19 But I am hoping in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you before long, so that I may be comforted when I have news of you.