2 Thessalonians 1:11

Moffatt

2 Thessalonians 1:11

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:

We pray

Our god

Revelation 5:10

Would

2 Thessalonians 1:5

Colossians 1:12

Revelation 3:4

Calling

1 Peter 5:10

Fulfil

Mark 4:28

1 Corinthians 1:8

Philippians 1:6

The good

The work

Hebrews 12:2

Bible References

We pray

God is my witness, the God whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how unceasingly I always mention you in my prayers,

I never cease to give thanks for you, when I mention you in my prayers.

For this reason, then, I kneel before the Father

And it is my prayer that your love may be more and more rich in knowledge and all manner of insight, enabling you to have a sense of what is vital,

Hence, from the day we heard of it, we have never ceased to pray for you, asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and insight,

How can I render thanks enough to God for you, for all the joy you make me feel in the presence of our God?

Our god

thou hast made them kings and priests for our God, and they shall reign on earth."

Would

They are proof positive of God's equity; you are suffering for the realm of God, and he means to make you worthy of it ??6 since God considers it but just to repay with trouble those who trouble you,

thanking the Father who has qualified us to share the lot of the saints in the Light,

Still, you have a few souls at Sardis who have not soiled their raiment; they shall walk beside me in white, for they deserve to.

Calling

it was for this that he called you by our gospel, to gain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Then he calls those whom he has thus decreed; then he justifies those whom he has called; then he glorifies those whom he has justified.

What if he means to show the wealth that lies in his glory for the objects of his mercy, whom he has made ready beforehand to receive glory ??24 that is, for us whom he has called from among the Gentiles as well as the Jews?

to press on to the goal for the prize of God's high call in Christ Jesus.

to lead a life worthy of the God who called you to his own realm and glory.

Holy brothers, you who participate in a heavenly calling, look at Jesus then, at the apostle and high priest of our confession;

Once you have suffered for a little, the God of all grace who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, will repair and recruit and strengthen you.

Fulfil

(For the earth bears crops by itself, the blade first, the ear of corn next, and then the grain full in the ear.)

and to the very end he will guarantee that you are vindicated on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

of this I am confident, that he who has begun the good work in you will go on completing it until the day of Jesus Christ.

The good

Fear not, you little flock, for your Father is delighted to give you the Realm.

destining us in love to be his sons through Jesus Christ. Such was the purpose of his will,

for it is God who in his goodwill enables you to will this and to achieve it.

But "the goodness and affection of God our Saviour appeared;

The work

Work for no perishing food, but for that lasting food which means eternal life; the Son of man will give you that, for the Father, God, has certified him."

and the surpassing greatness of his power over us believers ??a power which operates with the strength of the might

as we recall your active faith and labour of love and patient hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

We thank God constantly for this too, that when you received the word of the divine message from us, you took it not as a human word but for what it really is, the word of God. It proves effective in you believers,

our eyes fixed upon Jesus as the pioneer and the perfection of faith ??upon Jesus who, in order to reach his own appointed joy, steadily endured the cross, thinking nothing of its shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God.