Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands.
Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees.
Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees,
but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.”
The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of sense.
I could strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.
Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
And there appeared to him an angel from heaven, strengthening him.
But charge Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him, for he shall go over at the head of this people, and he shall put them in possession of the land that you shall see.’
Because you have disheartened the righteous falsely, although I have not grieved him, and you have encouraged the wicked, that he should not turn from his evil way to save his life,
The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary. Morning by morning he awakens; he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
The wise of heart is called discerning, and sweetness of speech increases persuasiveness.
The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so the hearts of fools.
For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring to Abraham what he has promised him.”
Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.
And they kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with joy, for the Lord had made them joyful and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, so that he aided them in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.
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