2 Thessalonians 1:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:

Glory

2 Corinthians 7:14

2 Corinthians 9:2

1 Thessalonians 2:19

Your patience

Your persecutions

1 Thessalonians 2:14

1 Thessalonians 3:3

James 5:11

Bible References

Glory

Although I have been boasting a little to him about you, I have not been put to shame. But as in every matter I have spoken the truth to you, so also my boast to Titus has been proved to be the truth.

for I know how ready you are, and am always boasting about you to the Macedonians, telling them that Greece has been ready for a year past; and your zeal has been a spur to the majority of them.

For what is my hope, or joy? What is the victor's wreath in which I exult? What but your own selves in the presence of our Lord Jesus, at his coming!

Your patience

May the Lord incline your hearts to the love of God and to the stedfastness of Christ.

eternal life to those who by patience in well-doing strive for glory and honor and immortality;

And not only so, but we are actually exulting also even in our troubles; for we know that trouble works fortitude,

Who hopes for what he clearly sees? But if we hope for something that we do not see, we then patiently wait for it.

Rejoice in hope; be patient under affliction; continue stedfast in prayer.

as I call to mind your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the presence of our God and Father.

I sent Timothy, my brother and God's fellow worker in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen you and to hearten you in your faith.

And so by patiently waiting, Abraham obtained the promise.

For you need stedfastness, so that after having done the will of God, you may receive the promise,

Seeing then that we are encircled with this great cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and the sin that clings about us. Let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

because you know that the testing of your faith is working out endurance.

Be patient, then, brothers, till the coming of the Lord. Behold the farmer who waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it gets the early and the latter rains.

and to knowledge self-control, and to self-control stedfastness, and to stedfastness piety,

Here is the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

Your persecutions

For you, brothers, began to follow the example of the churches of God in Judea, which are in Christ Jesus; and you in your turn suffered at the hands of your fellow citizens persecutions like to those which they endured from the Jews??15 The men who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out??hey are displeasing to God, and are the enemies of all mankind.

So that no one should be shaken by these troubles??or you know well that we are appointed to troubles.

Remember we count those that were stedfast happy. You have heard of the stedfastness of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord with him, seen how the Lord is full of tenderness.