Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting comfort and good hope by grace,

For Jehovah will comfort Zion; He will comfort all her waste places; and He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Jehovah. Joy and gladness shall be found in it, thanksgiving and the voice of melody.

I, even I, am He who comforts you. Who are you, that you should fear a man, who shall die; or the son of man, who shall be made as grass?

For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and consecrated place, even with the contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon Me; because Jehovah has anointed Me to preach the Gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;

to proclaim the acceptable year of Jehovah and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;

As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you; and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassions and God of all comfort,

For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our comfort also abounds through Christ.

But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil.

And give Him no rest until He establishes and makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, so that you may be strengthened;

Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept silent since the world began,

who will also confirm you to the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us is God,

being rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

and sent Timothy, our brother and minister of God, and our fellow laborer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you and encourage you concerning your faith,

so that He may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.

Do not be carried about with various and strange doctrines. For it is good that the heart be established by grace, not with foods which have not profited those who have been occupied with them.

But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory in Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

Now to Him who has the power to keep you from stumbling, and to present you without blemish before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy,

Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted Word, which has the power to save your souls.

But be doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.