He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who abstains, does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God.

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

In word

comfort and strengthen your hearts in every good work and word.

Little children, let us not love in word or tongue but in deed and in truth.

Giving

giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.

rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, overflowing with thanksgiving.

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world.

always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.

Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name.

you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Whoever speaks is to do so as one who is speaking the utterances of God; whoever serves is to do so as one who is serving by the strength which God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belongs the glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

God

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him.

and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Paul, Silvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: grace and peace to you.

For to which of the angels did God ever say, "You are my son, today I have begotten you"? And again, "I will be a father to him and he shall be a son to me"?

No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also.

General references

Beloved, you are acting faithfully in whatever you accomplish for the brethren, and especially when they are strangers;