2 Thessalonians 2:16 Cross References - Riverside

¹⁶ May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal encouragement and good hope through grace,

²⁵ But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that you had your good things in full in your lifetime, and Lazarus likewise had his evil things. Now he is here receiving comfort and you are in anguish.

¹⁶ For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son that every one who believes in him may not perish, but have life eternal.

¹⁴ But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst, but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water, flowing out into life eternal."

¹ BEFORE the Feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that the hour had come for him to pass from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world loved them to the end.

¹⁶ and I will ask the Father and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever — ¹⁷ the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot accept because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him because he abides with you and will be in you. ¹⁸ I will not leave you desolate; I will come to you.

⁹ As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love.

¹³ Greater love has no one than this: to lay down his life for his friends.

²² And you have grief now, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.

¹¹ On the contrary we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus just as they are."

²⁷ As he wished to cross over to Achaia, the brethren encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him. So he went and greatly helped those who had believed through grace.

⁷ to all who are in Rome, beloved by God, called to be holy: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

⁴ To him who works, wages are credited not as by grace, but as due;

¹⁶ Therefore all depends on faith, that it may be of grace, and thus the promise be sure for all his descendants, not only those who are of the Law, but also those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of all of us

² Through him we obtained entrance into this grace in which we stand and exult in hope of the glory of God. ³ Not only so, but we also exult in trials, knowing that trial develops endurance, ⁴ and endurance develops a tested character, and a tested character develops hope, ⁵ and hope does not disappoint, for the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit granted to us.

⁸ But God shows his own love to us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us.

²⁴ For we are saved by hope; but hope that is seen is not hope, for what any one sees, why does he hope for? ²⁵ But if we hope for what we do not see, we patiently wait for it.

⁵ So at this present time there is a remnant according to a gracious selection. ⁶ But if it is by grace it is no longer because of works, for then grace would be no longer grace.

¹⁷ For our momentary and light distress is working out for us a far surpassing and eternal weight of glory ¹⁸ while we contemplate not the things that are seen, but the things unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things unseen are eternal.

⁴ But God, who is rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us, ⁵ even when we were dead in misdeeds, made us alive along with Christ — by grace we have been saved —

² and live in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself for us, an offering and sacrifice to God yielding a fragrant odor.

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it,

⁵ because of the hope laid up for us in heaven. Of this you have already heard in the true message of the good news

²³ if you remain in the faith, firm and steadfast, never moving from the hope of the good news which you have heard and which has been proclaimed in all the creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a servant.

³ unceasingly remembering your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ before God our Father.

¹¹ May our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus Christ open the way for us to come to you.

¹ PAUL and Silvanus and Timothy to the Church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: ² Grace to you and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹³ We ought always to thank God for you, brethren, beloved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through the Spirit's making you holy and your own faith in the truth.

² in hope of life eternal, which the God who never lies promised ages ago

¹³ waiting for the blessed hope, the glorious appearing of the great God and of our Savior Christ Jesus,

⁴ But when the kindness of our Savior, God, and his love to men appeared, ⁵ "not because of works that we had done in righteousness, but out of his own mercy he saved us through the bath of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit ⁶ which he poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, ⁷ that we might be declared righteous by his grace and become heirs with the hope of life eternal."

¹¹ But we desire to have each one of you show to the end the same earnestness for the fulfillment of our hope, ¹² that you may not be dull, but imitators of those who through faith and patience are inheriting the promises.

¹⁸ that by two unchangeable things, in which it was impossible for God to be false, we might have strong encouragement, we who have fled to lay hold on the hope that lies before us. ¹⁹ We have this hope as an anchor of the soul, sure and firm, and it enters into the tent within the curtain

¹⁹ for the Law brought nothing to perfection — and there is the bringing in of a better hope through which we draw near to God.

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead — ⁴ a birth into an inheritance immortal, unstained and unfading, kept in heaven for you ⁵ who are guarded by the power of God through faith for the salvation which is ready to be revealed on the last day. ⁶ In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you are sorrowful in trials of many kinds, ⁷ so that your tested faith, much more precious than gold that perishes though tested by fire, may be found to your praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed, ⁸ whom you love though you have not seen him; in whom you have faith though now you do not see him, and you rejoice with unspeakable and glorious joy

² Beloved, we are now children of God and it is not yet plain what we shall be. But we know that if he appears we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. ³ And every one who has this hope set upon Christ purifies himself just as Christ is pure.

¹⁶ By this we have come to know love — that Christ laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

⁹ By this the love of God to us was made plain: that God sent his only Son into the world so that we may have life through him. ¹⁰ In this is love — not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

⁵ and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and freed us from our sins by his blood,

⁹ See, I will make those from the synagogue of Satan, men who call themselves Jews when they are not but are lying — I will make them come and bow down before your feet and they shall know that I have loved you.

¹⁶ They will not hunger any more nor thirst any more, nor will the sun strike on them nor any burning heat, ¹⁷ for the Lamb who is in the center before the throne will be their shepherd and will lead them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."

⁵ There will not be night any more and they will have no need of lamplight or of sunlight; for the Lord God will shine upon them and they will be kings for the ages of the ages.