1 Thessalonians 1:6

Thanksgiving For The Thessalonian Believers

⁵ because our good news did not come to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, even as ye have known of what sort we became among you because of you, ⁶ and ye -- ye did become imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much tribulation, with joy of the Holy Spirit, ⁷ so that ye became patterns to all those believing in Macedonia and Achaia,

Holy Spirit

Joy of the Holy Spirit

Acts 13:52

and the disciples were filled with joy and the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 4:16

I call upon you, therefore, become ye followers of me;

1 Corinthians 11:1

Followers of me become ye, as I also am of Christ.

Galatians 5:22

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

Acts 17:5-10

And the unbelieving Jews, having been moved with envy, and having taken to them of the loungers certain evil men, and having made a crowd, were setting the city in an uproar; having assailed also the house of Jason, they were seeking them to bring them to the populace,

2 Thessalonians 3:9

not because we have not authority, but that ourselves a pattern we might give to you, to imitate us;

Hosea 2:14

Therefore, lo, I am enticing her, And have caused her to go to the wilderness, And I have spoken unto her heart,

Matthew 16:24

Then said Jesus to his disciples, 'If any one doth will to come after me, let him disown himself, and take up his cross, and follow me,

Mark 10:29-30

And Jesus answering said, 'Verily I say to you, there is no one who left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for my sake, and for the good news',

John 8:12

Again, therefore, Jesus spake to them, saying, 'I am the light of the world; he who is following me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the light of the life.'

John 13:13-15

ye call me, The Teacher and The Lord, and ye say well, for I am;

John 14:16-18

and I will ask the Father, and another Comforter He will give to you, that he may remain with you -- to the age;

Acts 5:41

they, indeed, then, departed from the presence of the sanhedrim, rejoicing that for his name they were counted worthy to suffer dishonour,

Acts 9:31

Then, indeed, the assemblies throughout all Judea, and Galilee, and Samaria, had peace, being built up, and, going on in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, they were multiplied.

Romans 5:3-5

And not only so, but we also boast in the tribulations, knowing that the tribulation doth work endurance;

Romans 8:16-18

The Spirit himself doth testify with our spirit, that we are children of God;

Romans 15:13

and the God of the hope shall fill you with all joy and peace in the believing, for your abounding in the hope in power of the Holy Spirit.

2 Corinthians 8:1-2

And we make known to you, brethren, the grace of God, that hath been given in the assemblies of Macedonia,

2 Corinthians 8:5

and not according as we expected, but themselves they did give first to the Lord, and to us, through the will of God,

Ephesians 5:1

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved,

Philippians 3:17

become followers together of me, brethren, and observe those thus walking, according as ye have us -- a pattern;

1 Thessalonians 2:13-14

Because of this also, we -- we do give thanks to God continually, that, having received the word of hearing from us of God, ye accepted, not the word of man, but as it is truly, the word of God, who also doth work in you who believe;

1 Thessalonians 3:2-4

and did send Timotheus -- our brother, and a ministrant of God, and our fellow-workman in the good news of the Christ -- to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith,

2 Thessalonians 1:4

so that we ourselves do glory in you in the assemblies of God, for your endurance and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye bear;

Hebrews 10:34

for also with my bonds ye sympathised, and the robbery of your goods with joy ye did receive, knowing that ye have in yourselves a better substance in the heavens, and an enduring one.

1 Peter 1:6

in which ye are glad, a little now, if it be necessary, being made to sorrow in manifold trials,

1 Peter 1:8

whom, not having seen, ye love, in whom, now not seeing and believing, ye are glad with joy unspeakable and glorified,

1 Peter 3:13

and who is he who will be doing you evil, if of Him who is good ye may become imitators?

3 John 1:11

Beloved, be not thou following that which is evil, but that which is good; he who is doing good, of God he is, and he who is doing evil hath not seen God;