Thematic Bible
1 Thessalonians 2:1 (show verse)
For you yourselves, brethren, know that our entrance unto you was not vain,
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1 Thessalonians 2:2 (show verse)
but having suffered before and having been shamefully treated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to announce unto you the gospel of God with much diligence.
1 Thessalonians 2:3 (show verse)
For our exhortation was not of error nor of uncleanness nor in guile,
1 Thessalonians 2:4 (show verse)
but because we have been approved of God that he might entrust us with the gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who tries our hearts.
1 Thessalonians 2:5 (show verse)
For we were never flatterers in the word, as ye know, nor tainted with covetousness, God is witness,
1 Thessalonians 2:6 (show verse)
nor did we seek glory of men neither of you nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome unto you as the apostles of Christ.
1 Thessalonians 2:7 (show verse)
But we were gentle among you, as a mother feeding and caring for her children,
1 Thessalonians 2:8 (show verse)
loving you so much, that we were willing to give unto you, not only the gospel of God, but even our own souls, because ye are dear unto us.
1 Thessalonians 2:9 (show verse)
For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail, for labouring night and day, not to be a burden unto any of you, we preached among you the gospel of God.
1 Thessalonians 2:10 (show verse)
Ye are witnesses, and God also, of how holy and just and irreprehensible our behaviour was among you that believe,
1 Thessalonians 2:11 (show verse)
as ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father with his children,
1 Thessalonians 2:12 (show verse)
that ye would walk worthy of God, who has called you unto his kingdom and glory.
1 Thessalonians 2:13 (show verse)
For this cause also we thank God without ceasing, that having received from us the word to hear from God, ye received it not as the word of men, (but as it is in truth) the word of God, which effectually works in you that believe.
1 Thessalonians 2:14 (show verse)
For ye, brethren, have been imitators in Christ Jesus of the congregations of God which are in Judaea, for ye also have suffered like things of your own nation, even as they have of the Jews,
1 Thessalonians 2:15 (show verse)
who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets and have persecuted us, and they do not please God and are contrary to all men,
1 Thessalonians 2:16 (show verse)
forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up the measure of their sins always, for the wrath of God has come upon them to the uttermost.
1 Thessalonians 2:17 (show verse)
But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly with great desire to see your face.
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1 Thessalonians 2:18 (show verse)
Therefore we would have come unto you, even I, Paul, once and again, but Satan hindered us.
1 Thessalonians 2:19 (show verse)
For what is our hope or joy or crown of rejoicing? Is it not you in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
1 Thessalonians 2:20 (show verse)
For ye are our glory and joy.