Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Comfort » The duty of administering
We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.
"Comfort, comfort my people," says your God.
But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, exhortation, and consolation.
For you all can prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be exhorted.
so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.
Therefore comfort one another with these words.
Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.
Verse Concepts
Mercy » Should be shown » To backsliders
I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight. I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants."' "He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by the many; so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow. Therefore I beg you to confirm your love toward him.