“ Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work. ”
Comfort your hearts; - see the notes, 1Th 3:2 ; 1 Thessalonians 5:11 , 1 Thessalonians 5:14 . The Thessalonians were in the midst of trials, and Paul prayed that they might have the full con...
Further Thanksgiving and Prayer. In contrast to the men mentioned in 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 , Paul thanks God for the Christians whom God chose for salvation. The paragraph concludes with a brief...
Comfort . App-134. stablish . Greek. sterizo. See Romans 1:11 .
DISCOURSE: 2215 GOD OUR BENEFACTOR 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17 . Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good...
Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work. Comfort your hearts - Keep your souls ever under the influence of his Holy Spirit: and stablish you - confirm and strengthen you in...
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, Himself - by His own might, contrasted...
The Great Apostasy 2. Spirit] i.e. a pretended revelation uttered by a false prophet. Letter as from us ] perhaps a forged letter (the probable meaning), cp. 2 Thessalonians 3:17 , or a misunder...
Comfort your hearts... — “Comfort,” in reference to the “unending comfort” of 2 Thessalonians 2:16 ; and “stablish,” in reference to the “good hope in grace.” The “heart” needs comfort as the seat...
Chapter 21 THE THEOLOGY OF PAUL 2 Thessalonians 2:13-17 (R.V.) THE first part of this chapter is mysterious, awful, and oppressive. It deals with the principle of evil in the world, its secret...
Held Firm and Guarded from Evil 2 Thessalonians 2:13-17 ; 2 Thessalonians 3:1-5 This closing section is full of comfort and inspiration. Believers in Christ are the beloved of God; their salva...
The apostle now stated clearly the order of events connected with the Second Advent of Jesus. He first announced the distinction between the two things that they were evidently confusing: ''the Comin...
(13) В¶ But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief...
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; b...
Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work. Ver. 17. Stablish you ] Taking you by the hand, and laying hold on you, like as ye lay hold upon his word, 2 Thessalonians 2:15...
Therefore, brethren, stand fast In your adherence to the truth and possession of the grace of the gospel; and hold Without adding to or diminishing from them; the traditions which ye have been t...
In the first twelve verses of this chapter we are now presented with the striking, central message of the epistle. These things are not intended to satisfy indolent curiosity or to stir the excitemen...
Apostolic Prayer. A. D. 52. 16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father,...
Next, we have the things prayed for: Comfort your hearts; though he said before, who hath given us everlasting consolation. The apostle means, either actual possession of what God had given title...
‘Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word.' Thi...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES 2 Thessalonians 2:16 . Everlasting consolation and good hope. —Consolation, or comfort, is ministered by the Paraclete ( John 14:16 ; Acts 9:31 ), who abides for...
2 Thessalonians 2:16-17 Life's Trouble and its True Remedy. I. By Divine will there is a trouble common to man a trouble of life in which all and each may expect some share, and which, at particu...
2 Thessalonians 2:1-2 . Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, that ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by...
2 Thessalonians 2:1 . We beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord, the only hope of the saints, and by our gathering together to him. By the coming of our Lord reference must be had to t...
EXPOSITION CONTENTS .—The apostle now proceeds to the principal object which he had in view in writing this Epistle. The Thessalonians had adopted erroneous notions concerning the advent; they...
Paul commends, counsels, and comforts his readers:
1 Corinthians 1:8 ; 1 John 3:18 ; 1 Peter 5:10 ; 1 Thessalonians 3:13 ; 1 Thessalonians 3:2 ; 2 Corinthians 1:21 ; 2 Corinthians 1:3-6 ; 2 Thessalonians 2:16 ; 2 Thessalonians 3:3 ; Colossi...
The Second Coming in Thessalonians 2 Thessalonians 2:1-17 INTRODUCTORY WORDS You are, perhaps, aware that the Second Coming of Christ holds a very important place in both of Paul's Epistles to...