Consolation Under Affliction by Ministers of the Gospel

“Comfort, comfort My people,” says your God.

“Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her forced labor has been completed; her iniquity has been pardoned. For she has received from the hand of the LORD double for all her sins.”

But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, encouragement, and comfort.

…who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.

If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which accomplishes in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we experience.