Thy words have confirmed them that were staggering, and thou hast strengthened the trembling knees.
Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees,
And we beseech you, brethren, rebuke the unquiet, comfort the feeble minded, support the weak, be patient towards all men.
There is that promiseth, and is pricked as it were with a sword of conscience: but the tongue of the wise is health.
But God, who comforteth the humble, comforted us by the coming of Titus.
So that on the contrary, you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
Behold, thou hast taught many, and thou hast strengthened the weary hands.
But now the scourge is come upon thee, and thou faintest. It hath touched thee, and thou art troubled.
The ear that heard me blessed me: and the eye that saw me gave witness to me.
If I had a mind to go to them, I sat first; and when I sat as a king, with his army standing about him, yet I was a comforter of them that mourned.
To speak a word in due time, is like apples of gold on beds of silver.
The Lord hath given me a learned tongue, that I should know how to uphold by word him that is weary. He wakeneth in the morning: in the morning he wakeneth my ear, that I may hear him as a master.