2 Thessalonians 1:4

Thanksgiving For The Thessalonian Believers

³ We ought to return thanks to God always for you, brethren, as is fitting, for your faith increases exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all enlarges to one another; ⁴ So that we ourselves boast in you in all the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your expulsions and pressures which ye endure: ⁵ (A proof of the just judgment of God,) for you to be deemed worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:

For Us

In All the Churches

1 Thessalonians 2:14

For ye, brethren, were imitators of the churches of God being in Judea in Christ Jesus: for ye also suffered the same things by your own race, as they also by the Jews:

2 Corinthians 7:14

For if I have boasted anything to him of you, I was not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, so also was our boasting over Titus the truth.

1 Thessalonians 2:19

For what our hope, or joy, or crown of boasting? Are not also ye before our Lord Jesus Christ in his arrival?

1 Corinthians 7:17

Except as God divided to each, as the Lord has called each, so let him walk. And so I ordain in all the churches.

1 Thessalonians 1:3

Remembering your work of faith, and fatigue of love, and patience of hope of our Lord Jesus Christ, before God and our Father;

Romans 2:7

To them truly by perseverance of the good work they seek glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:

Romans 5:3-5

And not only, but also we boast in affliction: knowing that affliction works perseverance;

Romans 8:25

And if what we see not, we hope for, by patience we wait.

Romans 12:12

Rejoicing in hope; holding out under pressure; persevering in prayer;

2 Corinthians 9:2

For I know your forwardness, which I boast of for you to the Macedonians, that Achaia was prepared from last year; and zeal from you excited the many more.

2 Corinthians 9:4

Lest if in some way the Macedonians come with me, and find you unprepared, we should be ashamed, (that we should not say, ye) in this principle of boasting.

1 Thessalonians 3:2-8

And sent Timothy, our brother, and servant of God, and our coworker in the good news of Christ, in order to make you firm, and comfort you for your faith

2 Thessalonians 3:5

And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of Christ.

Hebrews 6:15

And so, having endured long, he gained the promise.

Hebrews 10:36

For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

Hebrews 12:1-3

Wherefore we also having such a cloud of witnesses lying round about us, having laid down every weight, and sin easily captivating, by patience we should run the race set before us,

James 1:3-4

Knowing that the proof of your faith works patience.

James 5:7-8

Therefore be longsuffering, brethren, even to the arrival of the Lord. Behold, the farmer awaits the precious fruit of the earth, being longsuffering for it, even till he should receive the early and late rain.

James 5:11

Behold, we esteem those enduring happy. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and ye see the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful.

2 Peter 1:6

And in knowledge self-control; and in self-control patience; and in patience devotion;

Revelation 14:12

Here is the patience of the holy: here they keeping the commands of God, and the faith of Jesus.