2 Thessalonians 2:17
New International Version
encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good deed and word.

New Living Translation
comfort you and strengthen you in every good thing you do and say.

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

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

Berean Literal Bible
may He encourage your hearts and may He strengthen them in every good work and word.

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

New King James Version
comfort your hearts and establish you in every good word and work.

New American Standard Bible
comfort and strengthen your hearts in every good work and word.

NASB 1995
comfort and strengthen your hearts in every good work and word.

NASB 1977
comfort and strengthen your hearts in every good work and word.

Legacy Standard Bible
encourage your hearts and strengthen them in every good work and word.

Amplified Bible
comfort and encourage and strengthen your hearts [keeping them steadfast and on course] in every good work and word.

Christian Standard Bible
encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good work and word.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good work and word.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Comfort your hearts and be occupied in every word and every good work.

Contemporary English Version
will encourage you and help you always to do and say the right thing.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Exhort your hearts, and confirm you in every good work and word.

English Revised Version
comfort your hearts and stablish them in every good work and word.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
may he encourage and strengthen you to do and say everything that is good.

Good News Translation
encourage you and strengthen you to always do and say what is good.

International Standard Version
encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good action and word.

Literal Standard Version
comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good word and work.

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

New American Bible
encourage your hearts and strengthen them in every good deed and word.

NET Bible
encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good thing you do or say.

New Revised Standard Version
comfort your hearts and strengthen them in every good work and word.

New Heart English Bible
comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.

Webster's Bible Translation
Comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good word and work.

Weymouth New Testament
comfort your hearts and make you stedfast in every good work and word.

World English Bible
comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.

Young's Literal Translation
comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good word and work.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Stand Firm
16Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who by grace has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope, 17encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good word and deed.

Cross References
1 Thessalonians 3:2
We sent Timothy, our brother and fellow worker for God in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you in your faith,

1 Thessalonians 3:13
so that He may establish your hearts in blamelessness and holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints. Amen.

2 Thessalonians 3:3
But the Lord is faithful, and He will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one.

1 Peter 5:10
And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself restore you, secure you, strengthen you, and establish you.


Treasury of Scripture

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

Comfort.

2 Thessalonians 2:16
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,

Isaiah 51:3,12
For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody…

Isaiah 57:15
For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

stablish.

2 Thessalonians 3:3
But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.

Isaiah 62:7
And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

Romans 1:11
For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;

in.

James 1:21,22
Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls…

1 John 3:18
My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

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2 Thessalonians 2
1. Paul urges them to continue stedfast in the truth received;
3. shows that there shall be a departure from the faith,
9. and a discovery of Antichrist, before the day of the Lord comes;
15. repeats his exhortation to stand firm, and prays for them.














(17) Comfort your hearts . . .--"Comfort," in reference to the "unending comfort" of 2Thessalonians 2:16; and "stablish," in reference to the "good hope in grace." The "heart" needs comfort as the seat of emotions. "In every good word and work" (it should be, work and word) means in the maintenance of every good doctrine (as opposed to the false teaching which had got abroad about the Advent, and to the lies of the Apostasy), and in the performance of every good practice (as opposed to the lawlessness of the Apostasy, and to the disorderly conduct of which the next chapter treats: for here, as in 1Thessalonians 3:13, the prayer forms an introduction of the next subject). The singular number of the verbs "comfort" and "stablish" (which, of course, does not appear in the English), may perhaps be explained as in 1Thessalonians 3:12, where see Note, though it is not necessary so to understand it, inasmuch as the intervening relative (in the Greek, participial) clauses have turned the whole attention to the Father, who may be considered exclusively as the grammatical subject of the verbs. It would, however, have been painful to orthodox ears; however justifiable doctrinally, to have used a plural verb. It is by these little incidental touches, still more than by express doctrinal statements, that we learn what was the real belief of the Apostles concerning the Divinity of Christ; and we may say the same with regard to many other great doctrines.

Verse 17. - Comfort your hearts, and stablish you; or, according to the best manuscripts, stablish them. namely, your hearts. These verbs are in the singular, but their nominative is our Lord Jesus Christ and God our Father, thus implying the unity between these Divine Persons. In every good word and work.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
encourage
παρακαλέσαι (parakalesai)
Verb - Aorist Optative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 3870: From para and kaleo; to call near, i.e. Invite, invoke.

your
ὑμῶν (hymōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

hearts
καρδίας (kardias)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Plural
Strong's 2588: Prolonged from a primary kar; the heart, i.e. the thoughts or feelings; also the middle.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

strengthen [you]
στηρίξαι (stērixai)
Verb - Aorist Optative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 4741: From a presumed derivative of histemi; to set fast, i.e. to turn resolutely in a certain direction, or to confirm.

in
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

every
παντὶ (panti)
Adjective - Dative Neuter Singular
Strong's 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole.

good
ἀγαθῷ (agathō)
Adjective - Dative Masculine Singular
Strong's 18: A primary word; 'good'.

word
λόγῳ (logō)
Noun - Dative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3056: From lego; something said; by implication, a topic, also reasoning or motive; by extension, a computation; specially, the Divine Expression.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

deed.
ἔργῳ (ergō)
Noun - Dative Neuter Singular
Strong's 2041: From a primary ergo; toil; by implication, an act.


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