2 Thessalonians 2:16 BSB

2 Thessalonians 2:16

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

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,

KJV

Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,

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Commentary

5 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Now our Lord Jesus - As all your grace came from God through Christ, so the power that is necessary to strengthen and confirm you unto the end must come in the same way. Everlasting consolation - Παρακλησιν αιωνιαν· The glad tidings of the Gospel, and the comfort which ye have received through believing; a gift which God had in his original purpose, in reference to the Gentiles; a purpose which has respected all times and places, and which shall continue to the conclusion of time; for the Gospel is everlasting, and shall not be superseded by any other dispensation.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

To whom he prays: Our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father. We may and should direct our prayers, not only to God the Father, through the mediation of our Lord Jesus Christ, but also to our Lord Jesus Christ himself; and should pray in his name unto God, not only as his Father but as our Father in and through him.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The love of God is the spring and fountain of all the good we have or hope for; our election, vocation, justification, and salvation, are all owing to the love of God in Christ Jesus. From this fountain in particular all our consolation flows. And the consolation of the saints is an everlasting consolation.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 1096: “Divine Love and Its Gifts” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1873)

THE Thessalonians had been much disturbed by the predictions of different persons that the day of Christ was at hand. There always have been pretenders to prophetic knowledge who have fixed dates for the end of the world and, by their fanaticism, have driven many into lunatic asylums and disturbed the peace of others. Some of this band had worried the saints at Thessalonica.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Referring both to our Lord Jesus (Ro 8:37; Ga 2:20) and God our Father (Joh 3:16). everlasting consolation--not transitory, as worldly consolations in trials (Ro 8:38, 39). This for all time present, and then "good hope" for the future [ALFORD]. through grace--rather as Greek "IN grace"; to be joined to "hath given." Grace is the element in which the gift was made.

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Original language & word study

25 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
αὐτὸς	autos	Himself	G846 →
δὲ	de	now	G1161 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
κύριος	kurios	Lord	G2962 →
ἡμῶν	hēmōn	of us	G3165 →
Ἰησοῦς	Iēsous	Jesus	G2424 →
Χριστὸς	Christos	Christ	G5547 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
θεὸς	theos	God	G2316 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
πατὴρ	patēr	Father	G3962 →
ἡμῶν,	hēmōn	of us,	G3165 →
ὁ	ho	the [One]	G3588 →
ἀγαπήσας	agapēsas	having loved	G25 →
ἡμᾶς	hēmas	us	G3165 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
δοὺς	dous	having given [us]	G1325 →
παράκλησιν	paraklēsin	comfort	G3874 →
αἰωνίαν	aiōnian	eternal	G166 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἐλπίδα	elpida	hope	G1680 →
ἀγαθὴν	agathēn	good	G18 →
ἐν	en	by	G1722 →
χάριτι,	chariti	grace,	G5485 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk

The walk5

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
John 3:16
For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
leads to
- Romans 5:8
  But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
- 1 John 4:9–10
  This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.
- Romans 8:32
  He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?
- John 3:15
  that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life.
- John 11:25–26
  Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.