2 Thessalonians 1:4

Thanksgiving For The Thessalonian Believers

³ We always ought to be thanking God for you, brothers, as it is right to do so, because your faith is growing so much and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing ⁴ so that we are always boasting of you among the churches of God for your patient endurance and faith, in spite of your persecutions and crushing sorrows which you are enduring. ⁵ This is a proof of God's righteous judgment, His aim being to let you show yourselves worthy of His kingdom, for which you are suffering; since,

For Us

In All the Churches

1 Thessalonians 2:14

For you, brothers, followed the example of God's churches in Judea that are in union with Christ Jesus, for you too have suffered the same sort of ill-treatment at the hands of your fellow-countrymen as they did at the hands of the Jews,

2 Corinthians 7:14

Indeed, if I have been doing some boasting of you to him, I have never been ashamed of it; but just as all I said to him was true, so now my boasting before Titus has been shown to be true.

1 Thessalonians 2:19

For what is our hope or happiness or crown of boasting, except you, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ when He comes?

1 Corinthians 7:17

Only, everybody must continue to live in the station which the Lord assigned to him, in that in which God called him. These are my orders in all the churches.

1 Thessalonians 1:3

for we can never for a moment before our God forget your energizing faith, your toiling love, and your enduring hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Romans 2:7

eternal life to those who patiently continue doing good and striving for glory, honor, and immortality,

Romans 5:3-5

And not only that, but this too: let us continue exulting in our sufferings, for we know that suffering produces endurance,

Romans 8:25

But a hope that is seen is not real hope, for who hopes for what he actually sees? But if we hope for something we do not see, we keep on patiently waiting for it.

Romans 12:12

ever happy in hope, always patient in suffering, ever persistent in prayer,

2 Corinthians 9:2

for I know your readiness to help in it. I am boasting of you about it to the Macedonians, reminding them that Greece has been ready since last year, and your enthusiasm has stimulated the most of them.

2 Corinthians 9:4

to keep me -- not to mention you -- from being humiliated for having such confidence in you, if some Macedonians come with me and find that you are not ready.

1 Thessalonians 3:2-8

and so I sent my brother Timothy, God's minister in the preaching of the good news of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you in your faith,

2 Thessalonians 3:5

May the Lord guide you into a realization of God's love for you and into a patient endurance like Christ's.

Hebrews 6:15

And so by patiently waiting he obtained what God had promised him.

Hebrews 10:36

Indeed, to carry out the will of God and to receive the blessing He has promised, you need endurance, for:

Hebrews 12:1-3

Therefore, as we have so vast a crowd of spectators in the grandstands, let us throw off every impediment and the sin that easily entangles our feet, and run with endurance the race for which we are entered,

James 1:3-4

for you surely know that what is genuine in your faith produces the patient mind that endures;

James 5:7-8

So be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer keeps on waiting and waiting for the precious crop from his land; how he keeps up his patience over it until he gets the early and late rains,

James 5:11

See how we call those who thus endured happy! You have heard how patiently Job endured and have seen how the Lord finally blessed him, because the Lord is tenderhearted and merciful.

2 Peter 1:6

knowledge with self-control, self-control with patient endurance, patient endurance with piety,

Revelation 14:12

In this way is shown the patient endurance of God's people, who always cling to God's commands and their faith in Jesus.