Colossians 4:8

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

“I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass?

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

So we urged Titus, that as he had made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

For Yahweh has comforted Zion. He has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Yahweh. Joy and gladness will be found in them, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.

Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

So also you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek that you may abound to the building up of the assembly.

I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.

Therefore when we couldn’t stand it any longer, we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone,

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn’t have another to lift him up.

He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’

He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his father was a Greek.

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.

Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without fear, for he does the work of the Lord, as I also do.

We have sent together with him the brother whose praise in the Good News is known throughout all the assemblies.

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know our state and that he may comfort your hearts.

But you know the proof of him, that as a child serves a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the Good News.

Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such people in honor,

But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one.

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

Don’t count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

to Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

Until I come, pay attention to reading, to exhortation, and to teaching.

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

Yahweh answered the angel who talked with me with kind and comforting words.

So then, let’s follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.

that I may come to you in joy through the will of God, and together with you, find rest.

What is it then, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has another language, or has an interpretation. Let all things be done to build each other up.

for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.

Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I commanded the assemblies of Galatia, you do likewise.

I had no relief for my spirit, because I didn’t find Titus, my brother, but taking my leave of them, I went out into Macedonia.

Therefore we have been comforted. In our comfort we rejoiced the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:

This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.

If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,

holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

But we beg you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you,

to Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.

Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober minded.

Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters and to be well-pleasing in all things, not contradicting,

For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,

Know that our brother Timothy has been freed, with whom, if he comes shortly, I will see you.

But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.

In that day you will say, “I will give thanks to you, Yahweh; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me.

that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,

But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.

Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, exhortation, and consolation.

For they refreshed my spirit and yours. Therefore acknowledge those who are like that.

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

so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.

I exhorted Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus take any advantage of you? Didn’t we walk in the same spirit? Didn’t we walk in the same steps?

I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that when you see him again, you may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.

As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,

and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith,

For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.

Therefore comfort one another with these words.

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.

comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.