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2 Thessalonians 2:17 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word. "
2 Thessalonians 2:17
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15 So then, brothers, stand firm and hold the traditions which you were taught by us, whether by word or by letter.
16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
17 comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.
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2 Thessalonians 2:1
"Now, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to him, we ask you"
2 Thessalonians 2:2
"not to be quickly shaken in your mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter as if from us, saying that the day of Christ has already come."
2 Thessalonians 2:3
"Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction."
2 Thessalonians 2:4
"He opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God."
2 Thessalonians 2:5
"Don’t you remember that when I was still with you, I told you these things?"
2 Thessalonians 2:6
"Now you know what is restraining him, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season."
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