Lexicon :: Strong's G3870 - parakaleō

Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who create divisions and obstacles contrary to the teaching that you learned. Avoid them,

Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree in what you say, that there be no divisions among you, and that you be united with the same understanding and the same conviction.

when we are slandered, we respond graciously. Even now, we are like the scum of the earth, like everyone’s garbage.

For you can all prophesy one by one, so that everyone may learn and everyone may be encouraged.

Now about our brother Apollos: I strongly urged him to come to you with the brothers, but he was not at all willing to come now. However, he will come when he has an opportunity.

He comforts us in all our affliction,[fn] so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction, through the comfort we ourselves receive from God.

As a result, you should instead forgive and comfort him. Otherwise, he may be overwhelmed by excessive grief.

Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us. We plead on Christ’s behalf, “Be reconciled to God.”

Working together with him, we also appeal to you, “Don’t receive the grace of God in vain.”

But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the arrival of Titus,

So we urged Titus that just as he had begun, so he should also complete among you this act of grace.

Therefore I considered it necessary to urge the brothers to go on ahead to you and arrange in advance the generous gift you promised, so that it will be ready as a gift and not as an extortion.

Now I, Paul, myself, appeal to you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ ​— ​I who am humble among you in person but bold toward you when absent.

Concerning this, I pleaded with the Lord three times that it would leave me.

Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice.[fn] Become mature, be encouraged,[fn] be of the same mind, be at peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

Therefore I, the prisoner in the Lord, urge you to walk worthy of the calling you have received,

I am sending him to you for this very reason, to let you know how we are and to encourage your hearts.

I urge Euodia and I urge Syntyche to agree in the Lord.

I want their hearts to be encouraged and joined together in love, so that they may have all the riches of complete understanding and have the knowledge of God’s mystery ​— ​Christ.[fn]

I have sent him to you for this very purpose, so that you may know how we are[fn] and so that he may encourage your hearts.

As you know, like a father with his own children,

And we sent Timothy, our brother and God’s coworker[fn] in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you concerning your faith,

Additionally then, brothers and sisters, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus, that as you have received instruction from us on how you should live and please God ​— ​as you are doing[fn] ​— ​do this even more.

Therefore encourage one another and build each other up as you are already doing.

encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good work and word.

Now we command and exhort such people by the Lord Jesus Christ to work quietly and provide for themselves.[fn]

As I urged you when I went to Macedonia, remain in Ephesus so that you may instruct certain people not to teach false doctrine

First of all, then, I urge that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for everyone,

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father, younger men as brothers,

Let those who have believing masters not be disrespectful to them because they are brothers, but serve them even better, since those who benefit from their service are believers and dearly loved.[fn]

Teach and encourage these things.

Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; correct, rebuke, and encourage with great patience and teaching.

holding to the faithful message as taught, so that he will be able both to encourage with sound teaching and to refute those who contradict it.

In the same way, encourage the young men to be self-controlled

I appeal to you, instead, on the basis of love. I, Paul, as an elderly man[fn] and now also as a prisoner of Christ Jesus,

But encourage each other daily, while it is still called today, so that none of you is hardened by sin’s deception.

not neglecting to gather together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging each other, and all the more as you see the day approaching.

And I urge you all the more to pray[fn] that I may be restored to you very soon.