With these words (εν τοις λογοις τουτοις). In these words. They were a comfort to the Thessalonians as they still comfort the peop…

Wherefore comfort one another. The marginal reading is exhort. The word comfort probably best expresses the meaning. The…

Comfort one another.—Here is a balm for the “sorrow” of 1 Thessalonians 4:13. Rather, “in these word…

With this word of assurance, Paul gives a basis for his converts to “encourage [GK 4151] each other.”

Comfort. He now shows more openly what I have previously stated — that in the faith of the resurrection we have good ground for consolatio…

Wherefore comfort one another with these words .
Or doctrines; as that the saints, when they die, do not cease to be…

Here is comfort for the relations and friends of those who die in the Lord. Grief for the death of friends is lawful; we may weep for our own lo , …

Previously, Paul aimed to bring the The alonians to the practice of self-control instead of sinful desire, and to curtail their idlene . Now he urg…