Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Comfort » The duty of administering
And we beseech you, brethren, remind the disorderly, encourage the timid, sustain the weak, and be slow to anger to all.
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, will your God say
And he prophesying speaks to men for building the house, and entreaty, and encouragement.
For ye are all able to prophesy one by one, that all might learn, and all might be encouraged.
So that on the contrary ye should rather show kindness, and console, lest perhaps such be swallowed down with more abundant sadness.
Therefore comfort ye one another with these words.
Wherefore comfort one another, and build up one another, as also ye do.
Verse Concepts
Mercy » Should be shown » To backsliders
Having risen, I will go to my father, and say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, And I am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired. And having risen, he came to his father. And yet being far off, his father saw him, and felt compassion, and having run, fell upon his neck, and kissed him.
Sufficient to such a one this enjoyment of the esteem of the many. So that on the contrary ye should rather show kindness, and console, lest perhaps such be swallowed down with more abundant sadness. Wherefore I beseech you to confirm love to him.