Browse 8 quotations connecting Paul the Apostle with Healing, with meanings, source notes and related themes.
Sources represented here include King James Bible — 1 Thessalonians 4:13, King James Bible — 1 Thessalonians 5:11, King James Bible — 2 Corinthians 1:4.
“That ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.”
The instruction does not forbid sorrow; it distinguishes grief shaped by hope from grief imagined as having no future beyond the loss.
1 Thessalonians 4:13, King James Version; Paul addresses sorrow concerning those who have died and frames the following passage around hope.
“Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another.”
Healthy community includes both consolation and constructive encouragement: people help each other endure and grow.
1 Thessalonians 5:11 in the King James Version.
“Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble.”
Received comfort becomes a responsibility toward others, turning personal experience of difficulty into practical empathy and support.
2 Corinthians 1:4 in the King James Version; the clause is excerpted before the verse repeats the source of comfort.
“To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also.”
Paul makes forgiveness reciprocal and communal, showing that restoration can require people to align their response rather than preserve separate grievances.
2 Corinthians 2:10, King James Version; Paul continues instructions about forgiving and receiving a person who had caused sorrow.
“Ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him.”
Forgiveness here includes restoration: after discipline has done its work, the community is told not to leave the person crushed by sorrow.
2 Corinthians 2:7 in the King James Version; excerpt from Paul’s instruction about receiving and comforting a repentant member.
“Through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:”
Forgiveness is announced as the central offer of the message, framing pardon as something proclaimed and received rather than concealed behind moral achievement.
Acts 13:38, King James Version; Paul’s speech at Antioch presents forgiveness as part of the message he is declaring to his listeners.
“In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;”
Forgiveness is presented as an expression of grace rather than an achievement earned by the person receiving it, placing pardon inside a larger account of redemption.
Ephesians 1:7, King James Version; the verse links redemption and forgiveness with grace in the opening blessing of the letter.
“Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.”
Friendship and community require emotional presence in both directions, sharing another person’s joy as well as sorrow.
Romans 12:15 in the King James Version.
