Comfort Flashcards
Comfort - English
The easing or alleviation of a person’s feelings of grief or distress
παρακαλεω (comfort)
- To call alongside
- To instill someone with courage or cheer (#4)
2 Co 1:3
(God of Comfort)
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort
παρακλητος
(Comforter - Helper)
One who is called to someone’s aid,
Latin advocatus.
one who appears in another’s behalf,
comforter, helper
1 Jhn 2:1
(Comforter - Jesus)
if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father,
Jesus Christ the righteous
John 14:16
(Another Comforter like Jesus)
I will ask the Father,
and He will give you another Helper/Comforter,
that He may be with you forever…
you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you (17)
John 14:26
(Comforter - the Holy Spirit)
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit,
whom the Father will send in My name,
He will teach you all things,
and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you
2 Co 1:4
(God enables us to comfort)
[God] comforts us in all our affliction,
in order to enable us to comfort those in any affliction
through the comfort which we ourselves are being comforted by God.
2 Co 1:5
(Comfort abounds in Christ)
For just as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so also our comfort abounds through Christ
2 Co 7:6-7
(Comforted by others)
But God, who comforts the depressed,
comforted us by the coming of Titus;
and not only by his coming,
but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you…
2 Co 2:7
(Comfort and Forgive - avoid being overwhelmed)
So that on the contrary
you should rather forgive and comfort him,
otherwise such a one might be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.
1 Th 3:7
(Comfort by faith of others)
for this reason, brethren,
in all our distress and affliction
we were comforted about you through your faith
