^8 (A)I am sending him to you for this very purpose, that ^[a]he may know your circumstances and comfort your hearts,

^22 (A)whom I have sent to you for this very purpose, that you may know our affairs, and that he may ^(B)comfort your hearts.

² that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, and attaining to all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the knowledge of the mystery of God, ^[a]both of the Father and of Christ,

¹⁷ comfort your hearts ^(A)and ^[a]establish you in every good word and work.

¹⁴ Now we ^[a]exhort you, brethren, ^(A)warn those who are ^[b]unruly, ^(B)comfort the fainthearted, ^(C)uphold the weak, ^(D)be patient with all.

¹¹ Therefore ^[a]comfort each other and ^[b]edify one another, just as you also are doing.

^18 (A)Therefore comfort one another with these words.

⁵ For this reason, when I could no longer endure it, I sent to know your faith, ^(A)lest by some means the tempter had tempted you, and ^(B)our labor might be in vain.

² and sent ^(A)Timothy, our brother and minister of God, and our fellow laborer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you and encourage you concerning your faith,

¹¹ as you know how we exhorted, and comforted, and ^[a]charged every one of you, as a father does his own children,