Acts 20:12
And the people were greatly relieved to take the boy home alive.
BSB
ASV
And they brought the lad alive, and were not a little comforted.
KJV
And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted.
And they brought the young man alive,.... Up into the upper room, and presented him alive to the disciples: and were not a little comforted; that is, the disciples, at the sight of the young man, who was taken up dead, not only for his sake, but chiefly because by this miracle the Gospel, which the apostle preached, and who was about to depart from them, was greatly confirmed to them.
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The walk8
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1 Thessalonians 5:11Therefore encourage and build one another up, just as you are already doing.
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Let no unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building up the one in need and bringing grace to those who listen.
Each of us should please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.
Let us not neglect meeting together, as some have made a habit, but let us encourage one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.
Therefore encourage one another with these words.
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2 Corinthians 1:4who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.
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Therefore encourage and build one another up, just as you are already doing.
“I, even I, am He who comforts you. Why should you be afraid of mortal man, of a son of man who withers like grass?
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,
