2 Thessalonians 2:17 “encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good word and deed.”

2 Thessalonians 2:17

encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good word and deed.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.

American Standard Version

comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word.

Geneva Bible 1599

Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in euery word and good worke.

Darby Translation

encourage your hearts, and establish you in every good work and word.

Young's Literal Translation

comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good word and work.

Bible in Basic English

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

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Cross references

“Comfort”

Romans 15:13 2 Thessalonians 2:16 Isaiah 57:15 Isaiah 66:13 2 Corinthians 1:3–6 Isaiah 51:3

Romans 15:13 · BSB

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

2 Thessalonians 2:16 · BSB

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who by grace has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope,

Isaiah 57:15 · BSB

For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive th…

Isaiah 66:13 · BSB

As a mother comforts her son, so will I comfort you, and you will be consoled over Jerusalem.”

2 Corinthians 1:3–6 · BSB

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort,

Isaiah 51:3 · BSB

For the LORD will comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and mel…

“stablish”

2 Thessalonians 3:3 1 Thessalonians 3:13 1 Thessalonians 3:2 1 Corinthians 1:8 Colossians 2:7 Hebrews 13:9

2 Thessalonians 3:3 · BSB

But the Lord is faithful, and He will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one.

1 Thessalonians 3:13 · BSB

so that He may establish your hearts in blamelessness and holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints. Amen.

1 Thessalonians 3:2 · BSB

We sent Timothy, our brother and fellow worker for God in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you in your faith,

1 Corinthians 1:8 · BSB

He will sustain you to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Colossians 2:7 · BSB

rooted and built up in Him, established in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.

Hebrews 13:9 · BSB

Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace and not by foods of no value to those devoted to them.

“in”

1 John 3:18 James 1:21 James 1:22

1 John 3:18 · BSB

Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth.

James 1:21 · BSB

Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and every expression of evil, and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save your souls.

James 1:22 · BSB

Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

16Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who by grace has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope,

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