2 Thessalonians 1:11

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2 Thessalonians 1:11

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Summary

Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:

We pray

Our god

Revelation 5:10

Would

2 Thessalonians 1:5

Colossians 1:12

Revelation 3:4

Calling

1 Peter 5:10

Fulfil

Mark 4:28

1 Corinthians 1:8

Philippians 1:6

The good

The work

Hebrews 12:2

Bible References

We pray

for God is my witness, to whom I am entirely devoted, in preaching the gospel of his son, that I constantly make mention of you, in my prayers, requesting,

I continually give thanks upon your account, making mention of you in my prayers;

for this cause I bow my knees unto the father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

and the favour I ask of him is this, that your kindness to me may be crown'd with farther improvements in knowledge and all prudence;

For this cause, ever since we heard of it, we incessantly pray for you, requesting that you may be endued with respect to the knowledge of his will, with all wisdom and spiritual discernment:

how can I be sufficiently thankful to God upon your account, for all the joy, which by your means we have been affected with,

Our god

and hast made us kings and priests unto our God: and we shall reign on the earth."

Would

by which you may be assur'd, that they will be punish'd by the divine justice, and that you shall be rewarded with the kingdom of God, for which you suffer;

giving thanks to the father, who has qualified you to share in that light he affords to his people:

thou hast a few persons in Sardis who have not defiled their garments; they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.

Calling

to this he has called you, to a life of glory with our Lord Jesus Christ.

but whom he predispos'd, he calls: and whom he has call'd, he justifies: and whom he has justified, he glorifies.

and display his infinite goodness to such objects of mercy, as he had prepared for glory?

I press towards the mark for the prize to which God has called me from above by Jesus Christ.

conjuring you to live suitably to the favour of God, who has called you to his kingdom and glory.

Wherefore, christian brethren, you who are called to an heavenly inheritance, consider the apostle and high priest of the faith we profess, even Christ Jesus;

but may the all-gracious God, who has called us to eternal glory, perfect, confirm, fortify, and settle you, during the short interval of your sufferings.

Fulfil

for the earth spontaneously produces, first the blade, then the ear, after that the grain of corn in the ear.

and God will confirm you to the end, that ye may be unaccused in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

he who has begun this good work in you will bring it to perfection against the appearance of Christ. it is but just

The good

fear not, ye little flock, for it is your father's good pleasure to grant you the kingdom.

having predetermin'd to adopt us by Jesus Christ to be his children, according to the good pleasure of his own will,

for it is God that influences your desires and endeavours, out of his benevolence to you.

but when the kindness and love of God our saviour display'd itself to mankind,

The work

work not for the food which perisheth, but for that which endureth unto everlasting life, and which the son of man shall give unto you, for to him it is that the father, that is God, has given his credentials.

and how exceedingly great that power is, which he has employ'd upon us who believe, a power corresponding to that energy of his mighty strength;

never forgetting the effects of your faith, your charitable offices, and the constancy of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ; of which God is our witness.

nor do we fail of giving thanks to God continually, that, when you received the word of God, which we preach, you did not receive it as the doctrine of men, but as a doctrine that appears to be truly divine, by the influences it displays in you, who believe.

having Jesus in our view, the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down on the right hand of the throne of God.