1 Thessalonians 1:5

Thanksgiving For The Thessalonian Believers

⁴ knowing as we do, brethren, that you are beloved by God and that He has chosen you. ⁵ The Good News that we brought you did not come to you in words only, but also with power and with the Holy Spirit and with much certainty, for you know the sort of men we became among you, as examples for your sakes. ⁶ And you followed the pattern set you by us and by the Master, after you had received the Message amid severe persecution, and yet with the joy which the Holy Spirit gives,

Full Assurance

Gifts of the Holy Spirit

Good News

Holy Spirit

Colossians 2:2

in order that their hearts may be cheered, they themselves being welded together in love and enjoying all the advantages of a reasonable certainty, till at last they attain the full knowledge of God's truth, which is Christ Himself.

2 Thessalonians 2:14

To this blessing God has called you by our Good News, so that you may have a share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Hebrews 2:3-4

how shall *we* escape if we are indifferent to a salvation as great as that now offered to us? This, after having first of all been announced by the Lord Himself, had its truth made sure to us by those who heard Him,

Mark 16:20

But they went out and made proclamation everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming their Message by the signs which accompanied it.

John 16:7-15

"Yet it is the truth that I am telling you--it is to your advantage that I go away. For unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.

Acts 2:33

"Being therefore lifted high by the mighty hand of God, He has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out this which you see and hear.

Acts 10:44-46

While Peter was speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all who were listening to the Message.

Acts 11:15-18

"And," said Peter, "no sooner had I begun to speak than the Holy Spirit fell upon them, just as He fell upon us at the first.

Acts 11:21

The power of the Lord was with them, and there were a vast number who believed and turned to the Lord.

Acts 16:14

Among our hearers was one named Lydia, a dealer in purple goods. She belonged to the city of Thyateira, and was a worshipper of the true God. The Lord opened her heart, so that she gave attention to what Paul was saying.

Acts 20:18-19

Upon their arrival he said to them, "You Elders well know, from the first day of my setting foot in the province of Asia, the kind of life I lived among you the whole time,

Acts 20:33-35

No one's silver or gold or clothing have I coveted.

Romans 1:16

For I am not ashamed of the Good News. It is God's power which is at work for the salvation of every one who believes--the Jew first, and then the Gentile.

Romans 2:16

on the day when God will judge the secrets of men's lives by Jesus Christ, as declared in the Good News as I have taught it.

Romans 15:18-19

For I will not presume to mention any of the results that Christ has brought about by other agency than mine in securing the obedience of the Gentiles by word or deed,

1 Corinthians 1:24

but to those who have received the Call, whether Jews or Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

1 Corinthians 2:2-5

For I determined to be utterly ignorant, when among you, of everything except of Jesus Christ, and of Him as having been crucified.

1 Corinthians 3:6

I planted and Apollos watered; but it was God who was, all the time, giving the increase.

1 Corinthians 3:16

Do you not know that you are God's Sanctuary, and that the Spirit of God has His home within you?

1 Corinthians 4:9-13

God, it seems to me, has exhibited us Apostles last of all, as men condemned to death; for we have come to be a spectacle to all creation--alike to angels and to men.

1 Corinthians 4:20

For Apostolic authority is not a thing of words, but of power.

1 Corinthians 9:19-23

Though free from all human control, I have made myself the slave of all in the hope of winning as many converts as possible.

1 Corinthians 10:33

That is the way that I also seek in everything the approval of all men, not aiming at my own profit, but at that of the many, in the hope that they may be saved.

1 Corinthians 12:7-11

But to each of us a manifestation of the Spirit has been granted for the common good.

2 Corinthians 3:6

It is He also who has made us competent to serve Him in connexion with a new Covenant, which is not a written code but a Spirit; for the written code inflicts death, but the Spirit gives Life.

2 Corinthians 4:1-3

Therefore, being engaged in this service and being mindful of the mercy which has been shown us, we are not cowards.

2 Corinthians 6:3-10

We endeavour to give people no cause for stumbling in anything, lest the work we are doing should fall into discredit.

2 Corinthians 10:4-5

The weapons with which we fight are not human weapons, but are mighty for God in overthrowing strong fortresses.

Galatians 1:8-12

But if even we or an angel from Heaven should bring you a Good News different from that which we have already brought you, let him be accursed.

Galatians 2:2

I went up in obedience to a revelation of God's will; and I explained to them the Good News which I proclaim among the Gentiles. To the leaders of the Church this explanation was made in private, lest by any means I should be running, or should already have run, in vain.

Galatians 3:2-5

Answer me this one question, "Is it on the ground of your obedience to the Law that you received the Spirit, or is it because, when you heard, you believed?"

Galatians 5:5

*We* have not, for through the Spirit we wait with longing hope for an acceptance with God which is to come through faith.

Galatians 5:22-23

The Spirit, on the other hand, brings a harvest of love, joy, peace; patience towards others, kindness, benevolence;

Ephesians 1:17-20

For I always beseech the God of our Lord Jesus Christ--the Father most glorious--to give you a spirit of wisdom and penetration through an intimate knowledge of Him,

Ephesians 2:4-5

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the intense love which He bestowed on us,

Ephesians 2:10

For we are God's own handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for good works which He has pre-destined us to practise.

Ephesians 3:20

Now to Him who, in exercise of His power that is at work within us, is able to do infinitely beyond all our highest prayers or thoughts--

Philippians 2:13

For it is God Himself whose power creates within you the desire to do His gracious will and also brings about the accomplishment of the desire.

Philippians 4:9

The doctrines and the line of conduct which I taught you--both what you heard and what you saw in me-- hold fast to them; and God who gives peace will be with you.

1 Thessalonians 2:1-11

For you yourselves, brethren, know that our visit to you did not fail of its purpose.

1 Thessalonians 2:13

And for this further reason we render unceasing thanks to God, that when you received God's Message from our lips, it was as no mere message from men that you embraced it, but as--what it really is--God's Message, which also does its work in the hearts of you who believe.

2 Thessalonians 3:7-9

For you yourselves know that it is your duty to follow our example. There was no disorder in our lives among you,

1 Timothy 4:12-16

Let no one think slightingly of you because you are a young man; but in speech, conduct, love, faith and purity, be an example for your fellow Christians to imitate.

2 Timothy 2:8

Never forget that Jesus Christ has risen from among the dead and is a descendant of David, as is declared in the Good News which I preach.

2 Timothy 2:10

For this reason I endure all things for the sake of God's own people; so that they also may obtain salvation--even the salvation which is in Christ Jesus--and with it eternal glory.

Titus 3:5-6

as righteous men, had done, but as the result of His own mercy He saved us by means of the bath of regeneration and the renewal of our natures by the Holy Spirit,

Hebrews 6:11

But we long for each of you to continue to manifest the same earnestness, with a view to your enjoying fulness of hope to the very End;

Hebrews 6:18-19

He added an oath, in order that, through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for Him to prove false, we may possess mighty encouragement--we who, for safety, have hastened to lay hold of the hope set before us.

Hebrews 10:22

let us draw near with sincerity and unfaltering faith, having had our hearts sprinkled, once for all, from consciences oppressed with sin, and our bodies bathed in pure water.

James 1:16-18

Do not be deceived, my dearly-loved brethren.

1 Peter 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who in His great mercy has begotten us anew to an ever-living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

1 Peter 1:12

To them it was revealed that they were serving not themselves but you, when they foretold the very things which have now been openly declared to you by those who, having been taught by the Holy Spirit which had been sent from Heaven, brought you the Good News. Angels long to stoop and look into these things.

1 Peter 5:3

not lording it over your Churches but proving yourselves patterns for the flock to imitate.

2 Peter 1:10

For this reason, brethren, be all the more in earnest to make sure that God has called you and chosen you; for it is certain that so long as you practise these things, you will never stumble.

2 Peter 1:19

And in the written word of prophecy we have something more permanent; to which you do well to pay attention--as to a lamp shining in a dimly-lighted place--until day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.