⁴ who consoles us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to console those who are in any affliction with the consolation with which we ourselves are consoled by God.

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

¹⁶ Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and through grace gave us eternal comfort and good hope, ¹⁷ comfort your hearts and strengthen them in every good work and word.^(A)

⁶ But God, who consoles the downcast, consoled us by the arrival of Titus,^{(A) 7} and not only by his arrival but also by the consolation with which he was consoled about you, as he told us of your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more.

God’s People Are Comforted

¹⁶ And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate,^[a] to be with you forever.^(A)

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

¹⁸ “I will not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you.