¹⁸ Therefore encourage one another with these words.

¹⁴ And we urge you, brothers and sisters, to admonish the idlers, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with all of them.^(A)

¹¹ Therefore encourage one another and build up each other, as indeed you are doing.

²⁴ And let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds, ²⁵ not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching.^(A)

²⁸ Now when these things begin to take place, stand up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”^[a](A)

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¹² Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees^(A)