Stand Firm
2 Thessalonians 2:17
In 9 translations
- BSB
- encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good word and deed.
- KJV
- Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.
- WEB
- comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.
- ASV
- comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word.
- LSV
- comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good word and work.
- YLT
- comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good word and work.
- DBY
- encourage your hearts, and establish you in every good work and word.
- DRC2:16
- Exhort your hearts, and confirm you in every good work and word.
- GNV
- Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in euery word and good worke.
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Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (3)
- In STEPBible’s comparison, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text include ὑμᾶς (“you”); NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles do not include this wording.
- Word order: Textus Receptus, Byzantine text place ἔργῳ elsewhere in this verse.
- Word order: Textus Receptus, Byzantine text place λόγῳ elsewhere in this verse.
SBLGNT apparatus (2)
A comparison of published Greek editions. “Add” means after the SBLGNT wording; “omit” refers to that wording.
- SBLGNT: στηρίξαι. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read στηρίξαι; Robinson–Pierpont add ὑμᾶς.
- SBLGNT: ἔργῳ καὶ λόγῳ. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read ἔργῳ καὶ λόγῳ; Robinson–Pierpont read λόγῳ καὶ ἔργῳ.
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Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- παρακαλέσαι ὑμῶν τὰς καρδίας καὶ στηρίξαι ἐν παντὶ ἔργῳ καὶ λόγῳ ἀγαθῷ.
- RP2018
- παρακαλέσαι ὑμῶν τὰς καρδίας, καὶ στηρίξαι ὑμᾶς ἐν παντὶ λόγῳ καὶ ἔργῳ ἀγαθῷ.
- TR-Boyd
- παρακαλέσαι ὑμῶν τὰς καρδίας, καὶ στηρίξαι ὑμᾶς ἐν παντὶ λόγῳ καὶ ἔργῳ ἀγαθῷ.
- SCR1894
- παρακαλεσαι υμων τας καρδιας και στηριξαι υμας εν παντι λογω και εργω αγαθω
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
Work; WorksWorks, GoodSteadfastnessAffliction, Consolation underPerseveranceJames, Epistle ofWorksChrist Is GodEphesians, Epistle to theDecision
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Cross-references most cited first
- 2 Thessalonians 3:3But the Lord is faithful, and He will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one.
- 1 Thessalonians 3:13so that He may establish your hearts in blamelessness and holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints. Amen.
- 1 Thessalonians 3:2We sent Timothy, our brother and fellow worker for God in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you in your faith,
- Jude 1:24Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you unblemished in His glorious presence, with great joy—
- Romans 15:13Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
- 1 Corinthians 1:8He will sustain you to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- Colossians 2:7rooted and built up in Him, established in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
- Hebrews 13:9Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace and not by foods of no value to those devoted to them.
- Isaiah 57:15For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive…
- Romans 16:25Now to Him who is able to strengthen you by my gospel and by the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery concealed for ages past
- James 1:21–22Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and every expression of evil, and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save your souls. Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving…
- Isaiah 66:13As a mother comforts her son, so will I comfort you, and you will be consoled over Jerusalem.”
- 1 Peter 5:10And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself restore you, secure you, strengthen you, and establish you.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:16Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who by grace has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope,
- 1 John 3:18Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth.
- 2 Corinthians 1:21Now it is God who establishes both us and you in Christ. He anointed us,
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Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- Content check: text matches KJV 2Thess.2.17 (word overlap 0.67), not 2Thess.2.16 (0.11); standard ref corrected from 2Thess.2.16 (TVTMS action was 'identity').