He who observes the day, observes it for the Lord, and he who eats, does so for the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who eats not, for the Lord he does not eat, and gives thanks to God.

Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

In word

comfort and strengthen your hearts in every good work and word.

Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.

Giving

giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in Light.

having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude.

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

always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to

God, even the Father;

in everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

Through Him then, let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that give thanks to His name.

you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Whoever speaks, is to do so as one who is speaking the utterances of God; whoever serves is to do so as one who is serving

by the strength which God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belongs the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

God

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him.

and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Paul and Silvanus and Timothy,

To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace.

For to which of the angels did He ever say,
“You are My Son,
Today I have begotten You”? And again,“I will be a Father to Him
And He shall be a Son to Me”?

Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also.

General references

Beloved, you are acting faithfully in whatever you accomplish for the brethren, and especially when they are strangers;