¹⁸ So then, give comfort to one another with these words.

¹⁴ And our desire is that you will keep control over those whose lives are not well ordered, giving comfort to the feeble-hearted, supporting those with little strength, and putting up with much from all.

¹¹ So then, go on comforting and building up one another, as you have been doing.

²⁴ And let us be moving one another at all times to love and good works;

²⁵ Not giving up our meetings, as is the way of some, but keeping one another strong in faith; and all the more because you see the day coming near.

²⁸ But when these things come about, let your heads be lifted up, because your salvation is near.

¹ Give comfort, give comfort, to my people, says your God.

² Say kind words to the heart of Jerusalem, crying out to her that her time of trouble is ended, that her punishment is complete; that she has been rewarded by the Lord's hand twice over for all her sins.

¹² For this cause let the hands which are hanging down be lifted up, and let the feeble knees be made strong,