Heavenly Good Book Verses
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love, compassion and comforting for others
Comfort(a)
Ye, comfort Ye my people sayeth Your Creator! Isaiah
40:1
(a) This is a consolation to the Church,
assuring them that they will never be destitute of Prophits
by which he exorteth the true Ministers of God that then were,
and those also that would come after him to comfort the poor
affilicted and to assure them of their deliverence both of
body and soul.
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some
have entertained Angels unawares. Hebrews 13:2
Who comforteth us in all our tribulations, (1) that
we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble,
by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted
of the Creator. II Corinthians 1:4
(1) The
Creator comforts us to this end and purpose, that we
may so much the more surely comfort others.
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not
love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If
I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and
all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains,
but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to
the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not
love I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does
not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude,
it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps
no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices
with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always
perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies,
they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled;
where there is knowledge, it will pass away ... And now these
things remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these
is love. 1 Corinthians 13:1-8, 13
And he called his name Noah, saying, This [same] shall {h}
comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands,
because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed. Genisis
5:29
(h) Lamech
had respect for the promise, \\# Ge 3:15\\, and desired to
see the deliverer who would be sent and yet saw but a figure
of it. He spoke this by the spirit of prophecy because Noah
delivered the Church and preserved it by his obedience.
And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort
him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For
I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his
father wept for him. Genisis 37:35
And it came to pass on the fourth day, when they arose early
in the morning, that he rose up to depart: and the damsel's
father said unto his son in law, comfort thine heart
with a morsel of bread, and afterward go your way. Judges
19:5
Then said David, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of
Nahash, as his father {a} shewed kindness unto me. And David
sent to comfort him by the hand of his servants for
his father. And David's servants came into the land of the
children of Ammon. 2 Samuel 10:2
(a) The children of God are not unmindful of a benefit received.
And Ephraim
their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort
him. 1 Chronicles 7:22
And David said, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of
Nahash, because his {a} father shewed kindness to me. And
David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his
father. So the servants of David came into the land of the
children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him. 1 Chronicles
19:2
(a) Because
Nahash received David and his company, when Saul persecuted
him he would now show pleasure to his son for the same.
Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden
myself in sorrow: let him not spare; {g} for I have not concealed
the words of the Holy One. Job 6:10
(g) That is, let me die at once before I come to distrust
God's promise through my impatience.
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall
ease my complaint; Job 7:13
If {u} I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off
my heaviness, and comfort [myself]: Job 9:27
(u) I think not to fall into these afflictions, but my sorrows
bring me to these manifold infirmities, and my conscience
condemns me.
[Are] not my days few? {s} cease [then, and] let me alone,
that I may take comfort a little, Job 10:20
(s) He
wishes that God would leave off his affliction, considering
his great misery and the shortness of his life.
How then comfort {u} ye me in vain, seeing in your
answers there remaineth falsehood? Job 21:34
(u) Saying
that the just in this world have prosperity and the wicked
adversity.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the {d} shadow of
death, I will fear no evil: for thou [art] with me; thy rod
and thy staff they comfort me. Psalms 23:4
(d) Though
he was in danger of death, as the sheep that wanders in the
dark valley without his shepherd.
[Thou], which hast shewed me great and {p} sore troubles,
shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the
depths of the earth. Psalms 71:20
(p) As
he confesses that God is the only author of his deliverance,
so he acknowledges that these evils were sent to him by God's
providence.
Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on
every side. Psalms 71:21
I will also praise thee with the psaltery, [even] thy {q}
truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou
Holy One of Israel. Psalms 71:22
(q) He
confesses that his long delay was well recompensed, when God
performed his promise.
In the multitude of my {m} thoughts within me thy comforts
delight my soul. Psalms 94:19
(m) In
my trouble and distress I always found your present help.
¶
This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath
quickened me. Psalms 119:50
The {b} proud have had me greatly in derision: [yet] have
I not declined from thy law. Psalms 119:51
(b) Meaning
the wicked who contemn God's word, and tread his religion
under foot.
I remembered thy {c} judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted
myself. Psalms 119:52
(c) That
is, the examples, by which you declair yourself to be judge
of the world.
{d} Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that
forsake thy law. Psalms 119:53
(d) That is, a vehement zeal to your glory and indignation against
the wicked.
Thy statutes
have been my songs in the house of my {e} pilgrimage. Psalms
119:54
(e) In
the course of this life and sorrowful exit.
I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the {f} night, and
have kept thy law. Psalms 119:55
(f) Even
when others sleep.
The earth, O LORD, is full of thy mercy: {e} teach me thy
statutes. Psalms 119:64
(e) For
the knowledge of God's word is a singular token of his favour.
¶
Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort,
according to thy word unto thy servant. Psalms 119:76
Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may {c} live:
for thy law [is] my delight. Psalms 119:77
(c) He
declares that when he did not feel God's mercies, he was as
dead.
Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort
me? Psalms 119:82
Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I
am sick of love. Song of Solomon 2:5
Hearken to me, my people; and give ear to me, O my nation:
for a {d} law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment
to rest for a light of the people. Isaiah 51:4
(d) I
will rule and govern my Church by my word and doctrine. Isaiah
51:4
These two {q} [things] have come to thee; who shall be sorry
for thee? desolation, and destruction, and famine, and the
sword: by whom shall I comfort thee? Isaiah 51:19
(q) Of
which the one is outward as of the things that come to the
body, as war, and famine and the other is inward, and belongs
to the mind: that is, to be without comfort: therefore
he says "How will you be comforted?"
O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, [and] not comforted,
behold, I will lay thy stones with {k} fair colours, and lay
thy foundations with sapphires. Isaiah 54:11
(k) By
this he declares the excellent estate of the Church under
Christ.
I have seen his ways, and will {u} heal him: I will lead him
also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
Isaiah 57:18
(u) Though
they were obstinate, yet I did not withdraw my mercy from
them.
To proclaim the {d} acceptable year of the LORD, and the day
of {e} vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
Isaiah 61:2
(d) The
time when it pleased God to show his good favour to man, which
Paul calls the fulness of time, \\# Ga 4:4\\.
(e) For when God delivers his Church, he punishes his enemies.
As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort
you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem. Isaiah
66:13
[When] I would {n} comfort myself against sorrow, my
heart [is] faint in me. Isaiah 8:18
(n) Read
\\# Jer 4:19\\.
Then shall the virgin rejoice in the {r} dance, both young
men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into
joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from
their sorrow.
(r) In
the company of the faithful, who ever praise God for his benefits.
They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort
me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad
that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou
hast called, and they shall be like unto me. Jeremiah 31:13
And they shall comfort you, when ye see their ways
and their doings: and ye shall know that I have not done without
cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord GOD. Ezekiel
14:23
But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said,
Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee
whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.Matthew
9:22
And Jesus stood still, and commanded him to be called. And
they call the blind man, saying unto him, Be of good comfort,
rise; he calleth thee. Mark 10:49
{3} For whatsoever things were written {c} aforetime were
written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort
of the {d} scriptures might have hope. (3) The preventing
of an objection: such things as are cited out of the examples
of the ancients, are propounded unto us to this end and purpose,
that according to the example of our fathers we should in
patience and hope bear one with another.
(c) By Moses and the prophets.
(d) The scriptures are said to teach and comfort, because
God uses them to teach and comfort his people with
them.
But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men [to] {d} edification,
and exhortation, and comfort. 1 Corinthians 14:3
(d) Which
may further men in the study of godliness.
For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and
all may be comforted. 1 Corinthians 14:31
{2} {a} Blessed [be] God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, the Father of {b} mercies, and the God of all comfort;
(2) He
begins after this manner with thanksgiving, which nonetheless
(otherwise than he was accustomed to) he applies to himself:
beginning his epistle with the setting forth of the dignity
of his apostleship, forced (as it should seem) by their importunity
which took an occasion to despise him, by reason of his miseries.
But he answers, that he is not so afflicted but that his comforts
do exceed his afflictions, showing the ground of them, even
the mercy of God the Father in Jesus Christ.
(a) To
him be praise and glory given.
(b) Most merciful.
Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, {3} that
we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble,
by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted
of God. 2 Corinthians 1:4
(3) The
Lord comforts us to this end and purpose, that we may
so much the more surely comfort others.
{4} And whether we be afflicted, [it is] for your consolation
and salvation, which is {d} effectual in the enduring of the
same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted,
[it is] for your consolation and salvation.
(4) He
denies that either his afflictions with which he was often
afflicted, or the consolations which he received of God, may
justly be despised, seeing that the Corinthians both ought
and might take great occasion to be strengthened and encouraged
by either of them.
(d) Although salvation is given to us freely, yet because
there is a way appointed to us by which we must come to it,
which is the race of an innocent and upright life which we
must run, therefore we are said to work our salvation; \\#
Php 2:12\\. And because it is God alone that of his free good
will works all things in us, therefore is he said to work
the salvation in us by that very same way by which we must
pass to everlasting life, after we have once overcome all
incumbrances.
So that contrariwise ye [ought] rather to {f} forgive [him],
and comfort [him], lest perhaps such a one should be
swallowed up with overmuch sorrow. 2 Corinthians 2:7
(f) That
whereas before you punished him sharply, you should now forgive
him.
Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying
of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful
in all our tribulation. 2 Corinthians 7:4
¶
For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest,
but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings,
within were fears. 2 Corinthians 7:5
Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are {d}
cast down, comforted us by the {e} coming of Titus;
2 Corinthians 7:6
(d) Whose
hearts are cast down, and are very much worn out.
(e) With those things which Titus told me of you at his coming,
that is, how fruitfully you read over my letters. And moreover
and besides that, I am exceedingly refreshed with his presence.
Therefore we were comforted in your comfort:
yea, and exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of Titus,
because his spirit was refreshed by you all. 2 Corinthians
7:13
{4} Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort,
be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace
shall be with you. 2 Corinthians 13:11
(4) A
brief exhortation, but yet such a one as comprehends all the
parts of a Christian man's life.
If {1} [there be] therefore any consolation in {a} Christ,
if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit,
if any {b} bowels and mercies. Philippians 2:1
(1) A
most earnest request to remove all those things, by which
that great and special consent and agreement is commonly broken,
that is, contention and pride, by which it comes to pass that
they separate themselves from one another.
(a) Any Christian comfort.
(b) If any seeking of inward love.
{9} As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged
every one of you, as a father [doth] his children. 1 Thessalonians
2:11
(9) To
exhort and comfort with a fatherly mind and affection.
Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in
all our affliction and distress by your faith: 1 Thessalonians
3:7
Wherefore comfort one another with these words. 1 Thessalonians
4:18
{6} Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify
one another, even as also ye do. 1 Thessalonians 5:11
(6) We
must not only watch ourselves, but we are also bound to stir
up, and to strengthen and encourage one another.
{9} Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are {e} unruly,
comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient
toward all [men]. 1 Thessalonians 5:14
(9) We must have consideration of every man, and the remedy must
be applied according to the disease.
(e) That keep not their rank or standing.
comfort
your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.
1 Thessalonians 2:17
{2} That {b} their hearts might be comforted, being
knit together in love, and unto all riches of the {c} full
assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the
mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ. Colossians
2:2
(2) He
concludes shortly the sum of the former doctrine, that is,
that the whole sum of true wisdom, and most secret knowledge
of God, consists in Christ alone, and that this is the use
of it with regard to men, that they are knit together in love,
and rest themselves happily in the knowledge of so great a
goodness, until they come to fully enjoy it.
(b) Whom, he never says.
(c) Of that understanding, which brings forth a certain and
undoubted persuasion in our minds.
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