18Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
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Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.
And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: …
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-18)In these words the apostle comforts the Thessalonians who mourned for the death of their relations and friends that died in the Lord. His design is to dissuade them from excessive grief, or inordinate sorrow, on that account. All grief for the death of friends is far from being unlawful; we may weep at least for ourselves if we do not weep for them, weep for own loss, though it may be their fain.…
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