Blessed are the mourners! they will be consoled.

There a paralytic was brought to him, lying on a pallet; and when Jesus saw the faith of the bearers he said to the paralytic, "Courage, my son! your sins are forgiven."

Then Jesus turned round, and when he saw her he said, "Courage, my daughter, your faith has made you well." And the woman was well from that hour.

Jesus stopped and said, "Call him." Then they called the blind man and told him, "Courage! Get up, he is calling you."

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a number of Jews had gone to condole with Martha and Mary about their brother;

and when the Jews who were condoling with her inside the house noticed her rise hurriedly and go out, they followed her, as they imagined she was going to wail at the tomb.

I have said all this to you that in me you may have peace; in the world you have trouble, but courage! I have conquered the world.

Now, all over Judaea, Galilee, and Samaria, the church enjoyed peace; it was consolidated, inspired by reverence for the Lord and by its invocation of the holy Spirit, and so increased in numbers.

So they left the prison and went to Lydia's house, where they saw the brothers and encouraged them; then they departed.

Through him we have got access to this grace where we have our standing, and triumph in the hope of God's glory. Not only so, but we triumph even in our troubles, knowing that trouble produces endurance, read more. endurance produces character, and character produces hope ??5 a hope which never disappoints us, since God's love floods our hearts through the holy Spirit which has been given to us.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of tender mercies and the God of all comfort, who comforts me in all my distress, so that I am able to comfort people who are in any distress by the comfort with which I myself am comforted by God. read more. For as the sufferings of Christ are abundant in my case, so my comfort is also abundant through Christ. If I am in distress, it is in the interests of your comfort and salvation; if I am comforted, it is in the interests of your comfort, which is effective as it nerves you to endure the same sufferings as I suffer myself. Hence my hope for you is well-founded, since I know that as you share the sufferings you share the comfort also.

So by all the stimulus of Christ, by every incentive of love, by all your participation in the Spirit, by all your affectionate tenderness,

I hope in the Lord Jesus to send you Timotheus before long, that I may be heartened by news of you.

We always thank the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ when we pray for you,

We always thank the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ when we pray for you, since we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and your love for all the saints, read more. due to the hope which is laid up for you in heaven. You heard of this hope originally in the message of the Truth, in that gospel which has reached you as it spreads over all the world with fruit and increase. Such has been your life from the day you learned to know what God's grace really is. You got that lesson from our beloved fellow-servant Epaphras, a minister of Christ who is faithful to your interests;

and so does Jesus who is called Justus. These are the only comrades in the work of God's realm, belonging to the circumcised, who have been any comfort to me.

how (as you know) we treated each of you as a father treats his children, beseeching you, encouraging you, and charging you

We beseech you, brothers, keep a check upon loafers, encourage the faint-hearted, sustain weak souls, never lose your temper with anyone;