2 Thessalonians 2:17 BSB

2 Thessalonians 2:17

encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good word and deed.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word.

KJV

Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.

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Commentary

3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

Comfort your hearts,.... That is, apply the comfort given, and cause it to be received, which unbelief is apt to refuse; and increase it, by shedding abroad the love of Christ, and of the Father; by the discoveries of pardoning grace; by the application of Gospel promises; by the word and ordinances, which are breasts of consolation; and by indulging with the gracious presence, and comfortable communion of Father, Son, and Spirit. The Arabic version reads, "comfort your hearts by his grace", joining the last clause of the preceding verse to this.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Comfort your hearts; - see the notes, 1Th 3:2; 1Th 5:11, 1Th 5:14. The Thessalonians were in the midst of trials, and Paul prayed that they might have the full consolations of their religion. And stablish you - Make you firm and steadfast; 1Th 3:2, 1Th 3:13. In every good word and work - In every true doctrine, and in the practice of every virtue. This chapter is very important in reference to the rise of that great anti-Christian power which has exerted, and which still exerts so baleful an influence over the Christian world.

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.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
παρακαλέσαι	parakalesai	would He encourage	G3870 →
ὑμῶν	humōn	your	G4771 →
τὰς	tas	<the>	G3588 →
καρδίας	kardias	hearts	G2588 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
στηρίξαι	stērixai	would He strengthen	G4741 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
παντὶ	panti	every	G3956 →
ἔργῳ	ergō	work	G2041 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
λόγῳ	logō	word	G3056 →
ἀγαθῷ.¶	agathō	good.	G18 →

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 walk8

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
2 Thessalonians 3:3
But the Lord is faithful, and He will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one.
leads to
- 2 Timothy 4:18
  And the Lord will rescue me from every evil action and bring me safely into His heavenly kingdom. To Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:24
  The One who calls you is faithful, and He will do it.
- 1 Corinthians 10:13
  No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will…
- Psalms 121:7
  The LORD will guard you from all evil; He will preserve your soul.
- 1 Corinthians 1:9
  God, who has called you into fellowship with His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful.
Through
Jude 1:24
Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you unblemished in His glorious presence, with great joy—
leads to
- Colossians 1:22
  But now He has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy, unblemished, and blameless in His presence—
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Ephesians 3:20
  Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us,
- John 10:29–30
  My Father who has given them to Me is greater than all. No one can snatch them out of My Father’s hand.