He who regards the day as sacred, so regards it for the Master's sake; and he who eats certain food eats it for the Master's sake, for he gives thanks to God; and he who refrains from eating it refrains for the Master's sake, and he also gives thanks to God.

Whether, then, you are eating or drinking, or whatever you are doing, let everything be done to the glory of God.

In word

comfort your hearts and make you stedfast in every good work and word.

Dear children, let us not love in words only nor with the lips, but in deed and in truth.

Giving

and give thanks to the Father who has made us fit to receive our share of the inheritance of God's people in Light.

having the roots of your being firmly planted in Him, and continually building yourselves up in Him, and always being increasingly confirmed in the faith as you were taught it, and abounding in it with thanksgiving.

First of all, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for what He has done for all of you; for the report of your faith is spreading through the whole world.

Always and for everything let your thanks to God the Father be presented in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;

In every circumstance of life be thankful; for this is God's will in Christ Jesus respecting you.

Through Him, then, let us continually lay on the altar a sacrifice of praise to God, namely, the utterance of lips that give thanks to His Name.

And be yourselves also like living stones that are being built up into a spiritual house, to become a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

If any one preaches, let it be as uttering God's truth; if any one renders a service to others, let it be in the strength which God supplies; so that in everything glory may be given to God in the name of Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the might to the Ages of the Ages. Amen.

God

For I always beseech the God of our Lord Jesus Christ--the Father most glorious--to give you a spirit of wisdom and penetration through an intimate knowledge of Him,

and that every tongue should confess that JESUS CHRIST is LORD, to the glory of God the Father.

Paul, Silas, and Timothy: To the Church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. May grace and peace be granted to you.

For to which of the angels did God ever say, "My Son art Thou: I have this day become Thy Father;" and again, "I will be a Father to Him, and He shall be My Son"?

No one who disowns the Son has the Father. He who acknowledges the Son has also the Father.

General references

My dear friend, you are acting faithfully in all your behaviour towards the brethren, even when they are strangers to you.