2 Thessalonians 1:4

Thanksgiving For The Thessalonian Believers

³ It is right for us to give praise to God at all times for you, brothers, because of the great increase of your faith, and the wealth of your love for one another; ⁴ So that we ourselves take pride in you in the churches of God for your untroubled mind and your faith in all the troubles and sorrows which you are going through; ⁵ Which is a clear sign of the decision which God in his righteousness has made; to give you a part in his kingdom, for which you have undergone this pain;

For Us

In All the Churches

1 Thessalonians 2:14

For you, my brothers, took as your examples the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; because you underwent the same things from your countrymen as they did from the Jews;

2 Corinthians 7:14

For I was not put to shame in anything in which I may have made clear to him my pride in you; but as we said nothing to you but what was true, so the good things which I said to Titus about you were seen by him to be true.

1 Thessalonians 2:19

For what is our hope or joy or crown of glory? Are not even you, before our Lord Jesus, at his coming?

1 Corinthians 7:17

Only, as the Lord has given to a man, and as is the purpose of God for him, so let him go on living. And these are my orders for all the churches.

1 Thessalonians 1:3

Having ever in mind your work of faith and acts of love and the strength of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

Romans 2:7

To those who go on with good works in the hope of glory and honour and salvation from death, he will give eternal life:

Romans 5:3-5

And not only so, but let us have joy in our troubles: in the knowledge that trouble gives us the power of waiting;

Romans 8:25

But if we have hope for that which we see not, then we will be able to go on waiting for it.

Romans 12:12

Being glad in hope, quiet in trouble, at all times given to prayer,

2 Corinthians 9:2

For I have before made clear to those of Macedonia my pride in your ready mind, saying to them that Achaia has been ready for a year back; and a great number have been moved to do the same by your example.

2 Corinthians 9:4

For fear that, if any from Macedonia come with me, and you are not ready, we (not to say, you) might be put to shame in this thing.

1 Thessalonians 3:2-8

We sent Timothy, our brother and God's servant in the good news of Christ, to give you strength and comfort in your faith;

2 Thessalonians 3:5

And may your hearts be guided by the Lord into the love of God and quiet waiting for Christ.

Hebrews 6:15

And so, when he had been waiting calmly for a long time, God's word to him was put into effect.

Hebrews 10:36

For, having done what was right in God's eyes, you have need of waiting before his word has effect for you.

Hebrews 12:1-3

For this reason, as we are circled by so great a cloud of witnesses, putting off every weight, and the sin into which we come so readily, let us keep on running in the way which is marked out for us,

James 1:3-4

Because you have the knowledge that the testing of your faith gives you the power of going on in hope;

James 5:7-8

Go on waiting calmly, my brothers, till the coming of the Lord, like the farmer waiting for the good fruit of the earth till the early and late rains have come.

James 5:11

We say that those men who have gone through pain are happy: you have the story of Job and the troubles through which he went and have seen that the Lord was full of pity and mercy in the end.

2 Peter 1:6

And self-control to knowledge, and a quiet mind to self-control, and fear of God to a quiet mind,

Revelation 14:12

Here is the quiet strength of the saints, who keep the orders of God, and the faith of Jesus.