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1 Thessalonians 4:18 KJV
1 Thessalonians · chapter 4 · verse 18
Wherefore comfort one another with these words.1 Thessalonians 4:18 · King James Version
1 Thessalonians 4:18 in context
16For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
18Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
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- comfortparakaleōto call to one's side, call for, summon, to address, speak to, , which may be done in the…G3870 →
- wordslogosof speech, a word, uttered by a living voice, embodies a conception or idea, what someone…G3056 →
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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;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 13-18