Reference: Comfort
Hastings
COMFORT, from late Lat. confortare, 'to strengthen,' 'reinforce,' denoted in old Eng. (a) physical, or (b) mental refreshment of an active kind (invigoration, encouragement)
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"Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
And here they brought to him a paralytic lying on a bed. When Jesus saw their faith he said to the paralytic, "Courage, son, your sins are forgiven."
But Jesus turned and saw her and said, "Be of good courage, daughter, your faith has healed you." And the woman was healed from that hour.
Then Jesus stood still, saying, "Call him." So they called the blind man, and said, "Courage, rise, he is calling you."
so a number of the Jews had gone to Martha and Mary to sympathize with them concerning their brother.
Then the Jews who were in the house trying to console her, when they saw that Mary rose quickly and went out, followed her, because they thought she was going to the tomb to weep there.
I have said all this to you that in me you might have peace. In the world you will have tribulation, but be courageous; I have overcome the world."
Now throughout the whole of Judea, Galilee, and Samaria the Church continued to enjoy peace and to be spiritually built up. It was increasing in members also, as it kept walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.
So Paul and Silas came out of the prison, and went to Lydia's house; and after they had seen the brethren and encouraged them, they left Philippi.
that is, that I with you may be encouraged by you, each of us by the other's faith, yours and mine.
Through him also we have had our access into this grace in which we have taken our stand, and are exulting in hope of the glory of God. And not only so, but we are actually exulting also even in our troubles; for we know that trouble works fortitude, read more. and fortitude character, and character, hope??5 a hope which never disappoints us. For through the Holy Spirit who has given to us, the "brimming river of the love of God" has overflowed in our hearts.
For everything that was written of old has been written for our instruction, that through patience, and through the comfort of the Scriptures, we might have hope.
Thanks be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of tender mercies and the God of all comfort, who ever comforts me in all my troubles, so that I may be continually able to comfort those who are in any trouble by the comfort with which God is ever comforting me. read more. For just as I have more than my share in the sufferings of the Christ, so also through the Christ I have more than my share of comfort. If I am afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if I am receiving comfort, it is for your comfort?? comfort produced within you by your patient fortitude, under the same sufferings which I also am enduring. My hope for you is firm; for I know that as you are comrades in my sufferings, so also are you comrades in my comfort.
If then there is any comfort in Christ, if there is any persuasive power in love, if there is any companionship of the Spirit, if there is any tenderness or pity,
Now I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you before long, so that I may be of good comfort when I learn the news concerning you.
Whenever I pray for you I am continually thanking God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ
Whenever I pray for you I am continually thanking God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ (since I heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and your love to all the saints) read more. because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Long ago you heard of this hope in the message which came to you of the truth of the gospel. And just as it is spreading through the whole world, bearing fruit and increasing, so also is it among you, from the day in which you heard it, and came truly to know the grace of God, as you learned it from Epaphras, our dearly loved fellow slave. He is a faithful minister of Jesus Christ in your behalf,
These are my only fellow workers for the kingdom of God, belonging to the circumcision, who have been any comfort to me.
You know how I was wont to treat each of you as a father treats his children,
And, brothers, we urge you to admonish the disorderly, comfort the faint-hearted, sustain the weak, lose patience with none.