1 Thessalonians 2:13

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Summary

For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.

Thank

1 Thessalonians 1:2

Romans 1:8

Because

The word of god

Effectually

Bible References

Thank

We always mention you in our prayers and thank God for you all;

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ about you all, because the report of your faith is spreading throughout the world.

Because

Then, if the house is worthy, let your blessing rest upon it, but, if it is unworthy, let your blessing return upon yourselves.

So those who accepted his teaching were baptized, and about three thousand people joined the disciples on that day alone.

Accordingly I sent to you at once, and you have been so good as to come. And now we are all here in the presence of God, to listen to all that you have been instructed by the Lord to say."

But the sight of the crowds of people filled the minds of the Jews with jealousy, and they kept contradicting Paul's statements in violent language.

Among them was a woman, named Lydia, belonging to Thyatira, a dealer in purple cloth, who was accustomed to join in the worship of God. The Lord touched this woman's heart, so that she gave attention to the Message delivered by Paul,

These Jews of Beroea were better disposed than those in Thessalonica, for they welcomed the Message with great readiness, and daily examined the Scriptures to see if what was said was true.

And as for what must have tried you in my condition, it did not inspire you with scorn or disgust, but you welcomed me as if I had been an angel of God--or Christ Jesus himself!

I want you to recall what was foretold by the holy Prophets, as well as the Command of our Lord and Savior given to you through your Apostles.

The word of god

Once, when the people were pressing round Jesus as the listened to God's Message, he happened to be standing by the shore of the Lake of Gennesaret, and saw two boats close to the shore.

This is the parable--The seed is God's Message.

But Jesus replied: "Rather, happy are those who listen to God's Message and keep it."

When the Apostles at Jerusalem heard that the Samaritans had welcomed God's Message, they sent Peter and John to them;

On the following Sabbath, almost all the city gathered to hear God's Message.

And so we gather, faith is a result of teaching, and the teaching comes in the Message of Christ.

God's Message is a living and active power, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing its way till it penetrates soul and spirit--not the joints only but the very marrow--and detecting the inmost thoughts and purposes of the mind.

But the teaching of the Lord remains for ever.' And that is the Teaching of the Good News which has been told to you.

For we were not following cleverly devised stories when we told you of the Coming in power of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we had been eye-witnesses of his majesty.

Effectually

Because the Good News that we brought came home to you, not merely as so many words, but with a power and a fulness of conviction due to the Holy Spirit. For you know the life that we lived among you for your good.

You are already clean because of the Message that I have given you.

Consecrate them by the Truth; thy Message is Truth.

God be thanked that, though you were once servants of Sin, yet you learned to give hearty obedience to that form of doctrine under which you were placed.

And all of us, with faces from which the veil is lifted, seeing, as if reflected in a mirror, the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into his likeness, from glory to glory, as it is given by the Lord, the Spirit.

Bearing fruit and growing, as it does, through all the world, just as it did among you, from the very day that you heard of God's loving-kindness, and understood what that loving-kindness really is.

Because he so willed, he gave us Life, through the Message of the Truth, so that we should be, as it were, an earnest of still further creations.

since your new Life has come, not from perishable, but imperishable, seed, through the Message of the Everliving God.

like newly born infants, crave pure spiritual milk, so that you may be enabled by it to grow till you attain Salvation--

And every one who has this hope with regard to Christ tries to make himself pure--as Christ is pure.

because all that has received the new Life from God conquers the world. And this is the power that has conquered the world--our faith!