the man who values a particular day does so to the Lord. The eater eats to the Lord, since he thanks God for his food; the non-eater abstains to the Lord, and he too thanks God.

So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, let it be all done for the glory of God.

In word

graciously encourage your hearts and strengthen them for all good in deed and word.

My dear children, let us put our love not into words or into talk but into deeds, and make it real.

Giving

thanking the Father who has qualified us to share the lot of the saints in the Light,

fixed and founded in him, confirmed in the faith as you have been taught it, and overflowing with thankfulness to God.

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

and render thanks to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ at all times and for all things.

thank God for everything ??such is his will for you in Christ Jesus;

And by him let us constantly offer praise to God as our sacrifice, that is, the fruit of lips that celebrate his Name.

come and, like living stones yourselves, be built into a spiritual house, to form a consecrated priesthood for the offering of those spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

If anyone preaches, he must preach as one who utters the words of God; if anyone renders some service, it must be as one who is supplied by God with power, so that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. The glory and the dominion are his for ever and ever: Amen.

God

May the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, grant you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation for the knowledge of himself,

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

Paul and Silvanus and Timotheus, to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: grace and peace to you.

For to what angel did God ever say, 'Thou art my son, to-day have I become thy father'? Or again, 'I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me'?

No one who disowns the Son can possess the Father: he who confesses the Son possesses the Father as well.

General references

Beloved, you are acting loyally in rendering any service to the brothers and especially to strangers;