Bom ânimo
Tende bom ânimo! Jesus repetiu estas palavras aos seus discípulos em meio às tempestades. No mundo tereis aflições, mas Ele já venceu o mundo — e nos dá coragem para enfrentar tudo.
These things I have spoken to you, that ye have peace in me; in the world ye shall have dis-ease, [or have pressing, or over-laying], but trust ye, I have overcome the world.
Lo! I command to thee; be thou comforted, and be thou strong; do not thou dread, nor be thou afeared; for thy Lord God is with thee in all things, to which thou goest.
again Joshua said to Israel, Do not ye dread, neither be ye afeared, be ye comforted, and be ye strong; for so the Lord shall do to all your enemies, against which ye shall fight.
Dread thou not, for I am with thee; bow thou not away, for I am thy God. I comforted thee, and helped thee; and the right hand of my just [or rightwise] man up-took thee.
For why God gave not to us the spirit of dread, but of virtue, and of love, and of soberness.
I may all things in him that comforteth me.
All ye that hope in the Lord, do ye manly; and your heart be comforted.
In whatever day I shall inwardly call thee, hear thou me; thou shalt multiply virtue in my soul.
The holy prayer of David. The Lord is my lightening, and mine health; whom shall I dread? The Lord is defender of my life; for whom shall I tremble [or quake]?
And anon Jesus spake to them, and said, Have ye trust, I am; do not ye dread.
for all saw him, and they were afraid, [or they were troubled, or disturbed]. And anon he spake with them, and said to them, Trust ye, I am; do not ye dread.
And he said to her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee safe; go thou in peace.
Therefore we be hardy always, and know that the while we be in this body, we go in pilgrimage from the Lord;
Therefore in the three and twenti-eth day of the seventh month, he let the peoples go to their tabernacles, joying and gladding upon the good-ness that God had done to David, and to Solomon, and to his people Israel.
Do ye manly, and be ye comfort-ed; do not ye dread, neither be ye afeared of the king of Assyrians, nor of all the multitude that is with him; for many more be with us than with him.
If thou hast slid, despairest in the day of anguish, thy strength shall be made less.
For which thing, ye men, be of good comfort [or of good heart]; for I believe to my God, that so it shall be, as it is said to me.
trusting this same thing, that he that began in you a good work, shall perform it till into the day of Jesus Christ.
In which ye shall make joy, though it behooveth now a little to be sorry in diverse temptations;
But the health of just [or rightwise] men is of the Lord; and he is their defender in the time of tribulation.
For I desire to see you, to impart somewhat to you of spiritual grace [or that I give to you something of spiritual grace], that ye be confirmed,
that is, to be comforted together in you, by [that] faith that is both yours and mine together.
For which thing we fail not, for though our outer man be corrupted; nevertheless the inner man is renewed from day to day.
For which thing comfort ye together, and edify ye each other, as ye do.
therefore, brethren, we be comforted in you, in all our need and tribulation, by your faith.
And all the people answered, and said, Far be it from us that we forsake the Lord, and serve alien gods.
Our Lord God himself led us and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of servage, and did great signs in our sight; and he kept us in all the way, by which we went, and in all peoples, by which we passed;
For I know the thoughts which I think on you, saith the Lord, the thoughts of peace, and not of torment, that I give to you an end and patience.