1 Thessalonians 3:7 Cross References - Bishops

⁷ Therefore brethren we were comforted ouer you, in all our aduersitie and necessitie, because of your fayth

⁴ And some of them beleued, and ioyned with Paul and Silas, and of the deuout Grekes a great multitude, and of the chiefe women not a fewe ⁵ But the Iewes whiche beleued not, moued with enuie, toke vnto them certaine vagaboundes and euyll men, and gathered a companie, and set all the citie on a rore, and made assault vnto the house of Iason, & sought to bryng them out to the people ⁶ And when they founde them not, they drewe Iason and certaine brethren vnto the heades of the citie, crying: these that trouble the world, are come hyther also ⁷ Whom Iason hath receaued [priuily.] And these al do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another kyng [one] Iesus ⁸ And they troubled the people, and the officers of the citie, when they hearde these thynges ⁹ And when they were sufficiently aunswered of Iason, and of the other, they let them go ¹⁰ And the brethren immediatlye sent away Paul & Silas by nyght, vnto Berea: Which when they were come thyther, they entred into the synagogue of the Iewes

⁹ For me thynketh, that God hath set foorth vs, whiche are the last apostles, as it were men appoynted to death. For we are made a gasyng stocke vnto the worlde, and to the angels, and to men ¹⁰ We [are] fooles for Christes sake, but ye [are] wyse in Christe. We [are] weake, but ye [are] stronge. Ye [are] honorable, but we [are] despised ¹¹ Euen vnto this time we both hunger and thirste, and are naked, and are buffeted, and haue no certaine dwellyng place ¹² And labour, working with our owne handes. We are reuyled, and we blesse. We are persecuted, and suffer it ¹³ We are euyll spoken of, and we praye: we are made as the fylthynesse of the worlde, the ofscowryng of all thynges vnto this day

⁴ Which comforted vs in all our tribulation, insomuch that we are able to comfort them which are in any maner trouble, with the comfort wherwith we our selues are comforted of God

⁶ Neuerthelesse, God that comforteth the humble, comforted vs by the commyng of Titus ⁷ And not by his comming only, but also by the consolatio whiche we receaued of you, when he tolde vs your desire, your wepyng, your feruent mynde towarde me, so that I reioyced the more

¹³ Therfore we are comforted, because ye are comforted: yea and exceedyngly the more ioyed we, for the ioy that Titus had, because his spirite was refreshed by you all

²³ They are the ministers of Christe, (I speake as a foole) I am more: in labours more aboundant, in stripes aboue measure, in pryson more plenteouslie, in death oft ²⁴ Of the Iewes fyue tymes receaued I fourtie [stripes] saue one ²⁵ Thryse was I beaten with roddes, once stoned, thrise I suffred shipwracke, nyght and day haue I ben in ye depth ²⁶ In iourneying often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils of myne owne nation, in perils among the heathen, in perils in the citie, in perils in the wildernesse, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ²⁷ In labour & trauayle, in watchinges often, in hunger and thirst, in fastinges often, in colde and nakednesse ²⁸ Besides the thynges which outwardlye come vnto me: my dayly encombraunce [is] the care of all the Churches

⁸ For nowe we lyue, yf ye stande fast in the Lorde ⁹ For what thankes can we recompence to God agayne for you, for all the ioye wherwith we ioy for your sakes before our God ¹⁰ But thou hast folowed my doctrine, fashion of lyuyng, purpose, fayth, long sufferyng, loue, patience ¹¹ Persecutions, afflictions, which came vnto me at Antioche, at Iconium, at Lystra, which persecutions I suffred patiently: And from them all, the Lord deliuered me ¹² Yea, and all that wyll lyue godly in Christe Iesus, shall suffer persecution

⁴ I reioyced greatly, that I founde of thy chyldren walkyng in trueth, as we haue receaued a commaundement of the father