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comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.
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The Unified Work of God
Scholars note that Paul directs this prayer to both the Father and Jesus, yet uses singular verbs. This grammatical choice intentionally highlights their unity. Our comfort and stability are the work of the unified Godhead, affirming that Jesus is God, working in perfect concert with the Father for our sake.
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2 Thessalonians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Comfort your hearts. See Barnes' notes on 1 Thessalonians 3:2; see Barnes' notes on 1 Thessalonians 5:11; see Barn…
Comfort and stablish (παρακαλεσα κα στηριξα). First aorist active optative of wish for the future of two common verbs παρακαλεω (s…
19th Century
Anglican
Comfort your hearts... — The word “comfort” refers to the “everlasting comfort” mentioned in 2 Thessalonians 2:16, whi…
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Baptist
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: that they all might be damned who believed not the trut…
As Paul closes ch. 2 with a prayer, he recognizes that he and his coworkers cannot in themselves make the appeal effective. Only God himself, who i…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Comfort your hearts That is, apply the comfort given, and cause it to be received, which unbelief is apt to refuse; …
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We may and should direct our prayers, not only to God the Father, through our Lord Jesus Christ, but also to our Lord Jesus Christ himself. And we …
13th Century
Catholic
1. Having described those whom the Antichrist has power to deceive—namely, those foreknown to suffer damnation—the Apostle now gives the rea…
