2 Thessalonians 2:13

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

We

2 Thessalonians 1:3

Romans 1:8

Romans 6:17

Beloved

From

John 1:1

John 8:44

Hebrews 1:10

Through

2 Thessalonians 2:10

Luke 1:75

1 Peter 1:2

Belief

General references

Luke 1:75

Acts 15:18

Romans 9:16

Bible References

We

Brothers, it is our duty always to thank God about you, as is but right, considering the wonderful growth of your faith, and because, without exception, your love for one another is continually increasing.

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ about you all, because the report of your faith is spreading throughout the world.

God be thanked that, though you were once servants of Sin, yet you learned to give hearty obedience to that form of doctrine under which you were placed.

Beloved

And may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and, in his loving-kindness, gave us unfailing consolation and good ground for hope,

May God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ bless you and give you peace.

Therefore, as God's People, consecrated and dear to him, clothe yourselves with tenderness of heart, kindliness, humility, gentleness, forbearance;

His love is seen in this--not in our having loved God, but in his loving us and sending his Son to be an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

From

In the Beginning the Word was; and the Word was with God; and the Word was God.

As for you, you are children of your Father the Devil, and you are determined to do what your father loves to do. He was a murderer from the first, and did not stand by the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he does what is natural to him; because he is a liar, and the father of lying.

Again-- 'Thou, Lord, in the beginning didst lay the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of thy hands.

Through

to the ruin of those who are on the path to destruction, because they have never received and loved the Truth to their own Salvation.

And should serve him without fear in holiness and righteousness, In his presence all our days.

and who were chosen in accordance with the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the consecration of the Spirit, to learn obedience, and to be purified by the sprinkling of the Blood of Jesus Christ, from Peter, an Apostle of Jesus Christ. May blessing and peace be yours in ever-increasing measure.

Belief

But, as for me, it is because I speak the truth to you that you do not believe me.

Jesus answered: "I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life; no one ever comes to the Father except through me.

On hearing this, the Gentiles were glad and extolled God's Message; and all those who had been enrolled for Immortal Life became believers in Christ;

He made no distinction between them and us, when he purified their hearts by their faith.

Foolish Galatians! Who has been fascinating you--you before whose very eyes Jesus Christ was depicted upon the cross?

For it is by God's loving-kindness that you have been saved, through your faith. It is not due to yourselves; the gift is God's.

On account of the hope which awaits its fulfillment in Heaven. Of this hope you heard long ago in the true Message of the Good News which reached you--

Do your utmost to show yourself true to God, a workman with no reason to be ashamed, accurate in delivering the Message of the Truth.

and that, from your childhood, you have known the Sacred Writings, which can give you the wisdom that, through belief in Christ Jesus, leads to Salvation.

Because he so willed, he gave us Life, through the Message of the Truth, so that we should be, as it were, an earnest of still further creations.

General references

And should serve him without fear in holiness and righteousness, In his presence all our days.

Says the Lord, as he does these things, foreknown from of old.'

So, then, all depends, not on human wishes or human efforts, but on God's mercy.