1 Thessalonians 1:3

Thanksgiving For The Thessalonian Believers

² We give thanks to God always concerning all of you, making mention constantly in our prayers, ³ [because we] remember your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father, ⁴ knowing, brothers [dearly] loved by God, {that he has chosen you},

Before God

By Faith

In the Faith

In the Sight of God

Jesus Christ

Labor of Love

Lord Jesus Christ

God Is Our Witness

Never Fail

Remembering You

Christ

Jesus

Messiah

2 Thessalonians 1:11

for which [purpose] we also pray always for you, that you may be considered worthy of the calling of our God, and he might fulfill every desire for goodness and work of faith with power,

Romans 15:4

For whatever was written beforehand was written for our instruction, in order that through patient endurance and through the encouragement of the scriptures we may have hope.

1 Corinthians 13:13

And now these three [things] remain: faith, hope, [and] love. But the greatest of these [is] love.

Galatians 5:6

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision counts for anything nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

2 Thessalonians 1:3

We ought to give thanks to God always concerning you, brothers, just as it is fitting, because your faith is flourishing and the love of each one of you all toward one another is increasing

Revelation 2:19

'I know your works, and your love, and faith, and service, and patient endurance--and your last works [are] greater than the first.

Genesis 29:20

And Jacob worked for Rachel seven years, but they were as a few days in his eyes because he loved her.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For to the person who [is] good in his eyes, he gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and heaping up only to give [it] to [him who is] pleasing to him. This also [is] vanity and chasing wind!

Song of Songs 8:7

Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If a man were to give all the wealth of his house {for love}, he would be utterly scorned.

John 6:27-29

Do not work for the food that perishes, but the food that remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has set his seal on this one."

John 14:15

"If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

John 14:21-23

The one who has my commandments and keeps them--that one is the one who loves me. And the one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him."

John 15:10

If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and remain in his love.

John 21:15-17

Now when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon [son] of John, do you love me more than these?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you." He said to him, "Feed my lambs!"

Acts 3:19

Therefore repent and turn back, so that your sins may be blotted out,

Acts 10:31

and said, 'Cornelius, your prayer has been heard, and your charitable deeds have been remembered before God.

Romans 2:7

to those who, by perseverance in good work, seek glory and honor and immortality, eternal life,

Romans 5:3-5

And not only [this], but we also boast in our afflictions, [because we] know that affliction produces patient endurance,

Romans 8:24-25

For in hope we were saved, but hope that is seen is not hope, for who hopes for what he sees?

Romans 12:12

rejoicing in hope, enduring in affliction, being devoted to prayer,

Romans 15:13

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Romans 16:6

Greet Mary, who {has worked hard} for you.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7

Love is patient, love is kind, love is not jealous, [it] does not boast, [it] does not become conceited,

1 Corinthians 15:58

So then, my dear brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, [because you] know that your labor is not [in] vain in the Lord.

2 Corinthians 2:17

For we are not like the majority who peddle the word of God, but as from pure motives--but as from God--we speak before God in Christ.

2 Corinthians 5:14-15

For the love of Christ controls us, [because we] have concluded this: that one died for all; as a result all died.

2 Corinthians 8:7-9

But just as you excel in everything--in faith and in speaking and in knowledge and with all diligence and in the love from us [that is] in you--so may you excel in this grace also.

Galatians 1:4

who gave himself for our sins in order to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

Galatians 5:13

For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not let your freedom [become] an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

Galatians 6:9

And let us not grow weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap, [if we] do not give up.

1 Thessalonians 2:13-14

And because of this we also give thanks to God constantly, that [when you] received God's word {that you heard} from us, you accepted [it] not [as the] word of men, but as [it] truly is, [the] word of God, which also is at work in you who believe.

1 Thessalonians 3:6

But now, [because] Timothy has come to us from you and has brought good news to us of your faith and love, and that {you always think kindly of us}, desiring to see us just as also we [desire to see] you,

1 Timothy 2:3

This [is] good and acceptable before God our Savior,

2 Timothy 1:3-5

{I am thankful} to God, whom I have served with a clear conscience {as my ancestors did}, when {I remember you constantly} in my prayers night and day,

Hebrews 4:11

Therefore, let us make every effort to enter into that rest, in order that no one may fall in the same pattern of disobedience.

Hebrews 6:10-11

For God [is] not unjust, [so as] to forget your work and the love which you demonstrated for his name [by] having served the saints, and continuing to serve [them].

Hebrews 6:15

And so, [by] persevering, he obtained the promise.

Hebrews 10:36

For you have need of endurance, in order that [after you] have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.

Hebrews 11:7-8

By faith Noah, having been warned about things not yet seen, out of reverence constructed an ark for the deliverance of his family, by which he pronounced sentence on the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

Hebrews 11:17

By faith Abraham, [when he] was tested, offered Isaac, and the one who received the promises was ready to offer his one and only [son],

Hebrews 11:24-34

By faith Moses, [when he] was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter,

Hebrews 13:21

equip you with every good [thing] to do his will, carrying out in us [what is] pleasing before him through Jesus Christ, to whom [be] the glory {forever}. Amen.

James 1:3-4

[because you] know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

James 2:17-26

Thus also faith, if it does not have works, is dead by itself.

James 5:7-8

Therefore be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the soil, being patient concerning it until it receives the early and late rains.

1 Peter 3:4

but the hidden person of the heart, with the imperishable [quality] of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is highly valuable in the sight of God.

1 John 3:3

And everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as that one is pure.

1 John 3:18

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

1 John 3:21

Dear friends, if our heart does not condemn [us], we have confidence before God,

1 John 5:3

For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome,

Revelation 2:2-4

'I know your works, and your labor and patient endurance, and that you are not able to tolerate evil, and you put to the test those who call themselves apostles and are not, and you found them [to be] false.

Revelation 3:10

Because you have kept the word of my patient endurance, I also will keep you from the hour of testing that is about to come upon the whole inhabited world, to put to the test those who live on the earth.