2 Thessalonians 2:13 Cross References - Moffatt

¹³ Now we are bound always to thank God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you as the first to be reaped for salvation, by the consecration of your spirit and by faith in the Truth;

⁷⁵ in holiness and uprightness all our days within his presence.

¹ THE Logos existed in the very beginning, the Logos was with God, the Logos was divine.

⁴⁴ You belong to your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires; he was a slayer of men from the very beginning, and he has no place in the truth because there is no truth in him: when he tells a lie, he is expressing his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies. ⁴⁵ It is because I tell the truth, that you do not believe me. ⁴⁶ Which of you can convict me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?

⁶ Jesus said to him, "I am the real and living way: no one comes to the Father except by means of me.

⁴⁸ When the Gentiles heard this they rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord and believed, that is, all who had been ordained to eternal life;

⁹ in cleansing their hearts by faith he made not the slightest distinction between us and them.

⁷ to all in Rome who are beloved by God, called to be saints, grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ⁸ First of all, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because the report of your faith is over all the world.

¹⁷ Thank God, though you did serve sin, you have rendered whole-hearted obedience to what you were taught under the rule of faith;

³³ Who is to accuse the elect of God? When God acquits,

¹¹ and though the children were still unborn and had done nothing either good or bad (to confirm the divine purpose in election which depends upon the call of God, not on anything man does),

¹ O senseless Galatians, who has bewitched you — you who had Jesus Christ the crucified placarded before your very eyes?

⁴ He chose us in him ere the world was founded, to be consecrated and unblemished in his sight, ⁵ destining us in love to be his sons through Jesus Christ. Such was the purpose of his will,

⁸ For it is by grace you have been saved, as you had faith; it is not your doing but God's gift,

⁵ due to the hope which is laid up for you in heaven. You heard of this hope originally in the message of the Truth, in that gospel

¹² As God's own chosen, then, as consecrated and beloved, be clothed with compassion, kindliness, humility, gentleness, and good temper —

⁴ O brothers beloved by God, we know he has chosen you;

⁹ for God destined us not for Wrath but to gain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

³ We are bound always to thank God for you, brothers — it is proper that we should, because your faith grows apace and your mutual love, one and all, is increasing.

¹⁰ and with the full deceitfulness of evil for those who are doomed to perish, since they refuse to love the Truth that would save them.

¹² so that all may be doomed who refuse faith in the Truth but delight in evil.

¹⁶ And may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father who has loved us and given us eternal encouragement and good hope,

⁹ who has saved us and called us to a life of consecration — not for anything we have done but because he chose to do it himself, by the grace which he gave us ages ago in Christ Jesus

¹⁵ Do your utmost to let God see that you at least are a sound workman, with no need to be ashamed of the way you handle the word of the Truth.

¹⁵ remember you have known from childhood the sacred writings that can impart saving wisdom by faith in Christ Jesus.

¹⁰ and, 'Thou didst found the earth at the beginning, O Lord, and the heavens are the work at thy hands;

¹⁸ It was his own will that we should be born by the Word of the truth, to be a kind of firstfruits among his creatures.

² whom God the Father has predestined and chosen, by the consecration of the Spirit, to obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: may grace and peace be multiplied to you. ³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy we have been born anew to a life of hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, ⁴ born to an unscathed, inviolate, unfading inheritance; it is kept in heaven for you, ⁵ and the power of God protects you by faith till you do inherit the salvation which is all ready to be revealed at the last hour.

¹⁰ Love lies in this, not in our love for him but in his love for us — in the sending of his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

¹⁹ We love, because He loved us first.