2 Thessalonians 2:17

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encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good thing you do or say.

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  • 2 Thess 3:3 : 3 But the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen you and protect you from the evil one.
  • 1 Thess 3:2 : 2 We sent Timothy, our brother and fellow worker for God in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen you and encourage you about your faith,
  • 1 Thess 3:13 : 13 so that your hearts are strengthened in holiness to be blameless before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
  • 2 Cor 1:3-6 : 3 Thanksgiving for God’s Comfort Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our troubles so that we may be able to comfort those experiencing any trouble with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 5 For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow toward us, so also our comfort through Christ overflows to you. 6 But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort that you experience in your patient endurance of the same sufferings that we also suffer.
  • 2 Cor 1:21 : 21 But it is God who establishes us together with you in Christ and who anointed us,
  • Col 2:7 : 7 rooted and built up in him and firm in your faith just as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
  • 2 Thess 2:16 : 16 Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by grace gave us eternal comfort and good hope,
  • Heb 13:9 : 9 Do not be carried away by all sorts of strange teachings. For it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not ritual meals, which have never benefited those who participated in them.
  • Jas 1:21-22 : 21 So put away all filth and evil excess and humbly welcome the message implanted within you, which is able to save your souls. 22 But be sure you live out the message and do not merely listen to it and so deceive yourselves.
  • 1 Pet 5:10 : 10 And, after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace who called you to his eternal glory in Christ will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.
  • 1 John 3:18 : 18 Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue but in deed and truth.
  • Jude 1:24 : 24 Final Blessing Now to the one who is able to keep you from falling, and to cause you to stand, rejoicing, without blemish before his glorious presence,
  • Isa 51:3 : 3 Certainly the LORD will console Zion; he will console all her ruins. He will make her wilderness like Eden, her arid rift valley like the Garden of the LORD. Happiness and joy will be restored to her, thanksgiving and the sound of music.
  • Isa 51:12 : 12 “I, I am the one who consoles you. Why are you afraid of mortal men, of mere human beings who are as short-lived as grass?
  • Isa 57:15 : 15 For this is what the high and exalted one says, the one who rules forever, whose name is holy:“I dwell in an exalted and holy place, but also with the discouraged and humiliated, in order to cheer up the humiliated and to encourage the discouraged.
  • Isa 61:1-2 : 1 The Lord Will Rejuvenate His People The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is upon me, because the LORD has chosen me. He has commissioned me to encourage the poor, to help the brokenhearted, to decree the release of captives, and the freeing of prisoners, 2 to announce the year when the LORD will show his favor, the day when our God will seek vengeance, to console all who mourn,
  • Isa 62:7 : 7 Don’t allow him to rest until he reestablishes Jerusalem, until he makes Jerusalem the pride of the earth.
  • Isa 66:13 : 13 As a mother consoles a child, so I will console you, and you will be consoled over Jerusalem.”
  • Rom 1:11 : 11 For I long to see you, so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you,
  • Rom 15:13 : 13 Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in him, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
  • Rom 16:25 : 25 Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that had been kept secret for long ages,
  • 1 Cor 1:8 : 8 He will also strengthen you to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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    15 Therefore, brothers and sisters, stand firm and hold on to the traditions that we taught you, whether by speech or by letter.

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

    3 Thanksgiving for God’s Comfort Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,

    4 who comforts us in all our troubles so that we may be able to comfort those experiencing any trouble with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

    5 For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow toward us, so also our comfort through Christ overflows to you.

    6 But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort that you experience in your patient endurance of the same sufferings that we also suffer.

    7 And our hope for you is steadfast because we know that as you share in our sufferings, so also you will share in our comfort.

  • 1 Thess 3:2
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  • 1 Thess 3:7-8
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    7 So in all our distress and affliction, we were reassured about you, brothers and sisters, through your faith.

    8 For now we are alive again, if you stand firm in the Lord.

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    18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.

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    2 My goal is that their hearts, having been knit together in love, may be encouraged, and that they may have all the riches that assurance brings in their understanding of the knowledge of the mystery of God, namely, Christ,

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    11 Now may God our Father himself and our Lord Jesus direct our way to you.

    12 And may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as we do for you,

    13 so that your hearts are strengthened in holiness to be blameless before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

  • 2 Thess 3:3-5
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    3 But the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen you and protect you from the evil one.

    4 And we are confident about you in the Lord that you are both doing– and will do– what we are commanding.

    5 Now may the Lord direct your hearts toward the love of God and the endurance of Christ.

  • Phlm 1:6-7
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    6 I pray that the faith you share with us may deepen your understanding of every blessing that belongs to you in Christ.

    7 I have had great joy and encouragement because of your love, for the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

  • 1 Thess 2:11
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    11 As you know, we treated each one of you as a father treats his own children,

  • 1 Thess 5:11
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    11 Therefore encourage one another and build up each other, just as you are in fact doing.

  • 2 Cor 7:13
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    13 Therefore we have been encouraged. And in addition to our own encouragement, we rejoiced even more at the joy of Titus, because all of you have refreshed his spirit.

  • Phil 2:1-2
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    1 Christian Unity and Christ’s Humility Therefore, if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort provided by love, any fellowship in the Spirit, any affection or mercy,

    2 complete my joy and be of the same mind, by having the same love, being united in spirit, and having one purpose.

  • 2 Cor 1:21
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    21 But it is God who establishes us together with you in Christ and who anointed us,

  • Heb 13:21
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    21 equip you with every good thing to do his will, working in us what is pleasing before him through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever. Amen.

  • Rom 1:12
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    12 that is, that we may be mutually comforted by one another’s faith, both yours and mine.

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    5 Now may the God of endurance and comfort give you unity with one another in accordance with Christ Jesus,

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    3 because we recall in the presence of our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and endurance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

  • 2 Thess 1:11-12
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    11 And in this regard we pray for you always, that our God will make you worthy of his calling and fulfill by his power your every desire for goodness and every work of faith,

    12 that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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    8 Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love for him.

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    20 For you are our glory and joy!

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

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    14 And we urge you, brothers and sisters, admonish the undisciplined, comfort the discouraged, help the weak, be patient toward all.

  • Eph 3:17
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    17 that Christ will dwell in your hearts through faith, so that, because you have been rooted and grounded in love,

  • 2 Cor 13:11
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    11 Final Exhortations and Greetings Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice, set things right, be encouraged, agree with one another, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

  • 2 Thess 2:2
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    2 not to be easily shaken from your composure or disturbed by any kind of spirit or message or letter allegedly from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord is already here.

  • Rom 15:13
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    13 Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in him, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

  • 1 Cor 1:8
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    8 He will also strengthen you to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • 2 Cor 7:4
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  • Eph 6:22
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    22 I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know our circumstances and that he may encourage your hearts.

  • 1 Pet 5:10
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    10 And, after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace who called you to his eternal glory in Christ will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.

  • 2 Cor 7:6
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    6 But God, who encourages the downhearted, encouraged us by the arrival of Titus.

  • 2 Tim 3:17
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    17 that the person dedicated to God may be capable and equipped for every good work.

  • Acts 20:32
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    32 And now I entrust you to God and to the message of his grace. This message is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

  • Phil 2:19
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    19 Models for Ministry Now I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I too may be encouraged by hearing news about you.

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