"Comfort, yes, comfort My people!" Says your God.

who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

whom I have sent to you for this very purpose, that you may know our affairs, and [that] he may comfort your hearts.

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,

Therefore comfort one another with these words.

Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also are doing.

Now we exhort you, brethren, warn those who are unruly, comfort the fainthearted, uphold the weak, be patient with all.

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