¹⁶ Now may our Lord Jesus Christ and God our Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting comfort and good hope by grace, ¹⁷ comfort and strengthen your hearts in every good work and word.

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2 Thessalonians 3:3

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

1 Thessalonians 3:2

So we sent Timothy, our brother and God's fellow worker in the good news of Christ. He came to strengthen and encourage you concerning your faith.

1 Thessalonians 3:13

May he resolutely strengthen your hearts without blame in holiness before God, our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his holy ones.

Jehovah will surely comfort Zion. He will look with compassion on all her ruins. He will make her deserts like Eden and her wastelands like the garden of Jehovah. Joy and gladness will be found in her along with thanksgiving and the sound of singing.

Isaiah 51:12

I, even I, am the one who comforts you. Who are you that you fear mortal men? The sons of men are like grass!

Isaiah 57:15

The High and Lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is holy, says: 'I dwell in the high and holy and also with him who has a contrite and humble spirit. I revive the spirit of the humble, and the heart of the contrite ones.'

Isaiah 61:1-2

The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord Jehovah is upon me, because Jehovah has anointed me to announce good news to the lowly and meek. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to captives and freedom to prisoners.

Isaiah 62:7

and do not give him any rest until he establishes Jerusalem and makes it an object of praise throughout the earth.

Isaiah 66:13

As a mother comforts her child, so I will comfort you. You will be comforted in Jerusalem.

Romans 1:11

I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift so that you may be strengthened,

Romans 15:13

Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Spirit.

Romans 16:25

Now to him that is of power to establish you according to my good news, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the secret, which was kept secret since the world began.

1 Corinthians 1:8

He will also confirm (establish) you to the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Corinthians 1:3-6

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

2 Corinthians 1:21

He who establishes us with you in Christ, and anointed us, is God.

Colossians 2:7

Keep your roots deep in him! Build your lives on him. Become stronger in your faith, as you were taught, and be filled with thanksgiving.

2 Thessalonians 2:16

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

Hebrews 13:9

Do not be carried away by varied (different) and strange teachings. It is good that the heart is established by grace and not by food. Those who are occupied by them are not benefited.

James 1:21-22

Therefore get rid of all filthiness and wickedness. Receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save you.

1 Peter 5:10

After you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will perfect, establish, and strengthen you.

1 John 3:18

My Little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.

Jude 1:24

Now to him that is able to guard you from stumbling, and to set you before the presence of his glory without blemish with exceeding joy.