2 Thessalonians 2:17 {16}
Good News Translation
encourage you and strengthen you to always do and say what is good.

New Revised Standard Version
comfort your hearts and strengthen them in every good work and word.

Contemporary English Version
will encourage you and help you always to do and say the right thing.

New American Bible
encourage your hearts and strengthen them in every good deed and word.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Exhort your hearts and confirm you in every good work and word.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exhort your hearts and confirm you in every good work and word.

Comfort.

2 Thessalonians 2:16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God and our Father, who hath loved us and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope in grace,

Isaiah 51:3,12 The Lord therefore will comfort Sion, and will comfort all the ruins thereof: and he will make her desert as a place of pleasure, and her wilderness as the garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of praise. . . .

Isaiah 57:15 For thus saith the High and the Eminent that inhabiteth eternity: and his name is Holy, who dwelleth in the high and holy place, and with a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Isaiah 61:1,2 The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed me: he hath sent me to preach to the meek, to heal the contrite of heart, and to preach a release to the captives, and deliverance to them that are shut up. . . .

Isaiah 66:13 As one whom the mother caresseth, so will I comfort you, and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

Romans 15:13 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing: that you may abound in hope and in the power of the Holy Ghost.

2 Corinthians 1:3-6 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort: . . .

stablish.

2 Thessalonians 3:3 But God is faithful, who will strengthen and keep you from evil.

Isaiah 62:7 And give him no silence till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

Romans 1:11 For I long to see you that I may impart unto you some spiritual grace, to strengthen you:

Romans 16:25 Now to him that is able to establish you, according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which was kept secret from eternity;

1 Corinthians 1:8 Who also will confirm you unto the end without crime, in the days of the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Corinthians 1:21 Now he that confirmeth us with you in Christ and that hath anointed us, is God:

Colossians 2:7 Rooted and built up in him and confirmed in the faith, as also you have learned: abounding in him in thanksgiving.

1 Thessalonians 3:2,13 And we sent Timothy, our brother and the minister of God in the gospel of Christ, to confirm you and exhort you concerning your faith: . . .

Hebrews 13:9 Be not led away with various and strange doctrines. For it is best that the heart be established with grace, not with meats: which have not profited those that walk in them.

1 Peter 5:10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little, will himself perfect you and confirm you and establish you.

Jude 1:24 Now to him who is able to preserve you without sin and to present you spotless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, in the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:

in.

James 1:21,22 Wherefore, casting away all uncleanness and abundance of naughtiness, with meekness receive the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls. . . .

1 John 3:18 My little children, let us not love in word nor in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

Context
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16Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God and our Father, who hath loved us and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope in grace, 17Exhort your hearts and confirm you in every good work and word.
Cross References
1 Thessalonians 3:2
And we sent Timothy, our brother and the minister of God in the gospel of Christ, to confirm you and exhort you concerning your faith:

1 Thessalonians 3:13
To confirm your hearts without blame, in holiness, before God and our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, with all his saints. Amen.

2 Thessalonians 3:3
But God is faithful, who will strengthen and keep you from evil.

1 Peter 5:10
But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little, will himself perfect you and confirm you and establish you.

2 Thessalonians 2:16
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