New King James Version
2 Thessalonians 2:17
17comfort your hearts and establish you in every good word and work.
2 Thessalonians 2:17 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.
- New International Version (NIV)encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good deed and word.
- English Standard Version (ESV)comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word.
- New Living Translation (NLT)comfort you and strengthen you in every good thing you do and say.
Context of 2 Thessalonians 2:17
15Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the traditions which you were taught, whether by word or our epistle. 16Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting consolation and good hope by grace, comfort your hearts and establish you in every good word and work.
Read all of 2 Thessalonians 22 Thessalonians 2:17 word by word
παρακαλέσαι ὑμῶν τὰς καρδίας καὶ στηρίξαι ἐν παντὶ ἔργῳ καὶ λόγῳ ἀγαθῷ.¶Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- Comfortπαρακαλέωparakaleō · to plead/comfortG3870
- yourσύsu · youG4771
- heartsὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
- heartsκαρδίαkardia · heartG2588
- andκαίkai · andG2532
- stablishστηρίζωstērizō · to establishG4741
- inἐνen · in/on/amongG1722
- everyπᾶςpas · allG3956
- goodἀγαθόςagathos · goodG18
- wordλόγοςlogos · wordG3056
- workἔργονergon · workG2041
Cross-references for 2 Thessalonians 2:17
- 2 Thessalonians 2:16Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting consolation and good hope by grace,
- Isaiah 51:3For the Lord will comfort Zion, He will comfort all her waste places; He will make her wilderness like Eden, And her desert like the garden of the Lord; Joy and gladness will be found in it, Thanksgiving and the voice of melody.
- Isaiah 57:15For thus says the High and Lofty One Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, With him who has a contrite and humble spirit, To revive the spirit of the humble, And to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
- Isaiah 61:1“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, Because the Lord has anointed Me To preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
- Isaiah 66:13As one whom his mother comforts, So I will comfort you; And you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.”
- Romans 15:13Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
- 2 Corinthians 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
- 2 Thessalonians 3:3But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one.
- Isaiah 62:7And give Him no rest till He establishes And till He makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
- Romans 1:11For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, so that you may be established—
- Romans 16:25Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept secret since the world began
- 1 Corinthians 1:8who will also confirm you to the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- 2 Corinthians 1:21Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us is God,
- Colossians 2:7rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.
- 1 Thessalonians 3:2and sent Timothy, our brother and minister of God, and our fellow laborer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you and encourage you concerning your faith,
- Hebrews 13:9Do not be carried about with various and strange doctrines. For it is good that the heart be established by grace, not with foods which have not profited those who have been occupied with them.
Commentaries on 2 Thessalonians 2:17
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 17Comfort your hearts - Keep your souls ever under the influence of his Holy Spirit: and stablish you - confirm and strengthen you in your belief of every good word or doctrine, which we have delivered unto you; and in the practice of every good work, recommended and enjoined by the doctrines of the Gospel. It is not enough that we believe the truth; we must love the truth. Antinomianism says: "Believe the doctrines, and ye are safe." The testimony borne by…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 17Comfort your hearts; - see the notes, 1 Thessalonians 3:2; 1 Thessalonians 5:11, 1 Thessalonians 5:14. The Thessalonians were in the midst of trials, and Paul prayed that they might have the full consolations of their religion. And stablish you - Make you firm and steadfast; 1 Thessalonians 3:2, 1 Thessalonians 3:13. In every good word and work - In every true doctrine, and in the practice of every virtue. This chapter is very important in reference to…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 16-17Verses 16-17 We may and should direct our prayers, not only to God the Father, through our Lord Jesus Christ, but also to our Lord Jesus Christ himself. And we should pray in his name unto God, not only as his Father, but as our Father in and through him. The love of God in Christ Jesus, is the spring and fountain of all the good we have or hope for. There is good reason for strong consolations, because the saints have good hope through grace. The free…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 17Paul’s prayer echoes the purpose of Timothy’s visit to the church. He came to strengthen and encourage the Thessalonian Christians in their faith (1 Thessalonians 3:2). He wanted to encourage and strengthen them because of their fears and doubts (2 Thessalonians 2:1–12; 1 Thessalonians 4:18; 5:11).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 16-1716-17. himself--by His own might, as contrasted with our feebleness; ensuring the efficacy of our prayer. Here our Lord Jesus stands first; in 1Th 3:11, "God our Father." which ... loved us--in the work of our redemption. Referring both to our Lord Jesus (Ro 8:37; Ga 2:20) and God our Father (Joh 3:16). everlasting consolation--not transitory, as worldly consolations in trials (Ro 8:38, 39). This for all time present, and then "good hope" for the future…Read the comment
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- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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