2 Thessalonians 2:17

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

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BSBPD

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

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

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

American Standard Version · Public Domain
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“comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good word and work.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo 2 Thessalonians 2:17 — 22 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Isaiah 51:3For 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 melodious song.
  2. Isaiah 51:12“I, even I, am He who comforts you. Why should you be afraid of mortal man, of a son of man who withers like grass?
  3. Isaiah 57:15For 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 the heart of the contrite.
  4. Isaiah 61:1The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,
  5. Isaiah 62:7nor give Him any rest until He establishes Jerusalem and makes her the praise of the earth.
  6. Isaiah 66:13As a mother comforts her son, so will I comfort you, and you will be consoled over Jerusalem.”
  7. Romans 1:11For I long to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you,
  8. Romans 15:13Now 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.
  9. Romans 16:25Now to Him who is able to strengthen you by my gospel and by the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery concealed for ages past
  10. 1 Corinthians 1:8He will sustain you to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
  11. 2 Corinthians 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort,
  12. 2 Corinthians 1:21Now it is God who establishes both us and you in Christ. He anointed us,
  13. Colossians 2:7rooted and built up in Him, established in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
  14. 1 Thessalonians 3:2We sent Timothy, our brother and fellow worker for God in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you in your faith,
  15. 1 Thessalonians 3:13so 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.
  16. 2 Thessalonians 2:16Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who by grace has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope,
  17. 2 Thessalonians 3:3But the Lord is faithful, and He will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one.
  18. Hebrews 13:9Do 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.
  19. James 1:21Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and every expression of evil, and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save your souls.
  20. 1 Peter 5:10And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself restore you, secure you, strengthen you, and establish you.
  21. 1 John 3:18Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth.
  22. Jude 1:24Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you unblemished in His glorious presence, with great joy—

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