Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
and hath given us everlasting consolation: The word "everlasting" (aionios) means "without end, never to cease, everlasting" (Thayer 20-2-166). The same word "everlasting" is used in 2 Thessalonians 1:9, meaning "everlasting destruction," and in 2:16 "everlasting consolation." It is not hard to know which way we would have it with us. The word "consolation" (parakleesia) means "consolation, comfort, solace" (Thayer 483-1-3874).