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

We ought to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because your faith is growing exceedingly, and the love of each one of you abounds toward one another;

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because your faith is proclaimed in the whole world.

But thanks be to God that, though ye were slaves of sin, ye did, however, obey from the heart that form of teaching unto which ye were delivered;

Beloved

Now our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and God our Father Who loved us and gave us eternal consolation and good hope in grace.

to all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called saints: Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Put on, therefore, as God's elect, holy and beloved, tender affections of compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, long-suffering;

Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son, to be a propitiation for our sins.

From

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Ye are of your father the Devil; and the desires of your father ye wish to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own; because he is a liar, and the father of it.

and, "Thou, Lord, in the beginning didst lay the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the works of Thy hands.

Through

and in all deceit of unrighteousness to those who perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

in holiness and righteousness before Him all our days.

elect according to the fore-knowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: grace to you, and peace be multiplied.

Belief

And, because I speak the truth, ye believe Me not.

Jesus saith to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through Me.

And the gentiles, having heard it, were rejoicing, and glorifying the word of God; and as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed.

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

O foolish Galatians! Who bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth crucified?

For by grace ye have been saved through faith: and this, not of yourselves, it is the gift of God:

because of the hope laid up for you in Heaven, of which ye heard before in the word of the truth of the Gospel,

Give diligence to present yourself approved to God, a workman not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

and that, from a babe, you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise unto salvation through faith that is in Christ Jesus.

Having willed it, He brought us forth with a word of truth, that we might be a certain first-fruit of His creatures.

General references

in holiness and righteousness before Him all our days.

saith the Lord, Who maketh these things known from of old.

So, then, it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God Who hath mercy.