1 Thessalonians 1:3 Cross References - Godbey

³ incessantly remembering your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope of our Lord Jesus Christ, before God even our Father;

²⁷ Labor not for the food that perishes, but the food that abideth unto eternal life, which the Son of man gives to you: for this God the Father hath sealed. ²⁸ Then they said to Him, What must we do, that we may work the works of God? ²⁹ Jesus responded and said to them, This is the work of God, that you may believe on Him whom He hath sent.

¹⁵ If you love me, keep my commandments.

²¹ The one having my commandments, and keeping them, he is the one loving me with divine love: the one loving me with divine love, shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will manifest myself unto him. ²² Judas. (not Iscariot), says to Him, Lord, and how is it that you are about to manifest yourself to us, and not to the world? ²³ Jesus responded and said to him; If any one may love me with divine love, he will keep my word: and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and will make our mansion with him.

¹⁰ If you may keep my commandments, abide in my love; as I have kept the commandments of my Father, and I abide in His love.

¹⁵ Then when they took breakfast, Jesus says to Simon Peter; Simon, the son of Jonah, dost thou love me with divine love more than these? He says to Him, Yes, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee as a friend. He says to him; Feed my lambs. ¹⁶ Again He says to him a second time, Simon, the son of Jonah, do you love me with divine love? He says to Him; Thou knowest that I love thee as a friend. He says to him; Shepherdize my sheeplings. ¹⁷ He says to him a third time; Simon, the son of Jonah, do you love me as a friend? Peter was grieved, because He said to him the third time, Do you love me as a friend? And he says to Him, Lord, thou knowest all things; and thou dost understand that I love thee as a friend. He says to Him, Feed my sheeplings.

¹⁹ Repent, therefore, and turn, that your sins may be blotted out, in order that seasons of soul-renewing may come from the presence of the Lord,

³¹ and says, Cornelius, thy prayer has been heard, and thine alms have been remembered before God.

⁷ to those indeed who with patience of good work are seeking glory and honor and immortality, eternal life:

³ And not only so, but let us also rejoice in tribulation; knowing that tribulation works out endurance; ⁴ and endurance, approval; and approval, hope: ⁵ and hope makes not ashamed; because the divine love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Ghost who has been given unto us.

²⁴ For we are saved by hope: but hope which is seen is not hope: for why does any one indeed hope for that which he sees? ²⁵ But if we hope for that which we do not see, we wait for it with patience.

¹² rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

⁴ For so many things as were previously written were written for our instruction, in order that through the patience and through the consolation of the scriptures we may have hope.

¹³ And the God of hope fill you in all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Ghost.

⁶ Salute Mary, who labored much for you.

²⁶ but having now indeed been made manifest, through the prophetical scriptures, and having been made known to all the Gentiles, according to the commandment of the eternal God, unto the obedience of faith;

⁴ Divine love suffers long; divine love is kind; divine love envies not; does not make a display of itself, is not puffed up, ⁵ does not behave itself uncomely, seeks not its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; ⁶ it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but it rejoices in the truth; ⁷ it bears all things, it believes all things, it hopes all things, it endures all things.

¹³ But now abide faith, hope, divine love, these three; but the greatest of these is divine love.

⁵⁸ So, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

¹⁷ For we are not as many, corrupting the word of God: but as of purity, but as from God, we speak in Christ, in the presence of God.

¹⁴ For the love of Christ constrains us; having judged this, that one died for all; then were all dead; ¹⁵ and he died for all, in order that those living may not live unto themselves, but unto him who died for them and is risen.

⁷ But as in every thing you abound, in faith, and in word, and knowledge, and in all zeal, and in divine love from you in us, that you may also abound in this philanthropy. ⁸ I speak not according to commandment, but through the zeal of others also proving the sincerity of your divine love. ⁹ For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, being rich, for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might be made rich.

⁴ who gave Himself for our sins, in order that he might redeem us from the present evil age, according to the will of God even our Father:

⁶ For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision or uncircumcision avails anything; but faith working through divine love.

¹³ For you were called unto liberty, brethren; only use not the liberty unto an occasion to the flesh, but through divine love serve one another.

⁹ But let us not get weary doing that which is good: for in due time we will reap, fainting not.

¹³ And on account of this we also give thanks to God incessantly, because, receiving the word of God from us by hearing, you received it not as the word of men, but, as it truly is, the word of God, who indeed works in you who believe. ¹⁴ For ye, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea in Jesus Christ: because you suffered the same things from your fellow tribes, as they also from the Jews;

⁶ But Timothy, having already come to us from you, and proclaimed to us the good news of your faith and your divine love, and that you always have a good mention of us, longing to see us, as we do to see you;

³ We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brethren, as it is worthy, because your faith increases, and the divine love of each one of you all towards one another abounds more and more;

¹¹ Unto which indeed we are praying incessantly for you, in order that our God may count you worthy of the calling, and may fulfill all the good pleasure of his goodness and work of faith, with power;

³ This is beautiful and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;

³ I give thanks to God, whom I serve from my ancestors with a clean conscience, as I have incessant mention of you in my prayers, night and day ⁴ longing to see you, remembering your tears, in order that I may be filled with joy; ⁵ having received the remembrance of the unhypocritical faith which is in you; which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice; and, I am persuaded that it is in you also.

⁵ hearing about your divine love, and the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus, and all the saints; ⁶ in order that the fellowship of your faith may be efficient in the perfect knowledge of every good thing which is in you toward Christ. ⁷ For I had much joy and consolation over your divine love, because the affections of the saints have been refreshed by you, O brother.

¹¹ Therefore let us hasten to enter into that rest, lest some one may fall by the same example of unbelief.

¹⁰ For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and the divine love which you manifested in his name, having ministered to the saints, and ministering. ¹¹ But we desire each one of you to exhibit the same diligence unto the full assurance of hope unto the end:

¹⁵ and thus having waited long, he received the promise.

³⁶ For you have need of patience, in order that, having done the will of God, you will inherit the promise.

⁷ By faith Noah, being warned concerning things not yet seen, being moved with fear, prepared an ark for the salvation of his family; by which he condemned the world, and became heir to the righteousness which is according to faith. ⁸ By faith Abraham, being called to go out into a place which he was about to receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and went out, not knowing whither he goes.

¹⁷ By faith Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac: and the one having received the promises offered up his only begotten son,

²⁴ By faith Moses, having become an adult, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; ²⁵ choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasure of sin for a season; ²⁶ esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt: for he was looking unto the recompense of reward. ²⁷ By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he went out, as seeing the invisible one. ²⁸ By faith he instituted the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, in order that the one destroying the first-born might not touch them. ²⁹ By faith they pass through the Red sea as through dry land: the undertaking of which the Egyptians having entered upon were drowned. ³⁰ By faith the walls of Jericho fell, having been encompassed about seven days, ³¹ By faith Rahab the harlot perished not with the unbelievers, having received the spies with peace. ³² And what do I yet say? time will fail me relating concerning Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, and David, and Samuel, and the prophets: ³³ who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, ³⁴ obtained promises, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness became filled up with dynamite, became mighty in war, put to flight the armies of the aliens:

²¹ in every good thing to do his will, doing that which is acceptable in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory unto the age of the ages. Amen.

³ Knowing that the trial of your faith works out endurance. ⁴ But let endurance have its perfect work, in order that you may be perfect and whole in every part, lacking in nothing.

¹⁷ So indeed faith, if it may not have works, is dead, as to itself. ¹⁸ But one will say, You have faith, and I have works: Show me your faith apart from works, and I will show you my faith by my works. ¹⁹ Do you believe that there is one God? you do well: the demons also believe and tremble. ²⁰ Do you wish to know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is inefficient? ²¹ Was not Abraham our father justified by works, having offered up his son Isaac on the altar? ²² You see that faith wrought with his works, and by works the faith was made perfect; ²³ and the scripture was fulfilled, saying, And Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the friend of God. ²⁴ You see that a man is justified by works, and not only by faith. ²⁵ And likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, having received the spies, and sent them out by another way? ²⁶ For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so faith also apart from works is dead.

⁷ Therefore, O brethren, suffer long, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer receives the precious fruit of the earth, waiting for it, until he may receive the former and latter rain: ⁸ you also suffer long; establish your hearts; because the coming of the Lord is nigh.

⁴ but let their beauty be the hidden man of the heart, in the purity of the meek and quiet spirit, which in the sight of God is perfection complete.

³ Indeed every one having this hope on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

¹⁸ Little children, let us love with divine love not in word, nor in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

²¹ Beloved, if our heart may not condemn us, we have boldness toward God:

³ For this is the divine love of God, that we may keep his commandments: and his commandments are not heavy:

² I know your works, and your labor, and your patience, and that you are not able to bear the wicked; and you have tried those who say they are apostles, and are not, and have found them to be liars: ³ and you have patience and have borne with them for my name's sake, and have not fainted. ⁴ But I have something against you, because you have left your first love.

¹⁹ I know your works, and your divine love, and faith, and ministry, and patience, and your works: the last more than the first.

¹⁰ Because you have kept the word of my patience, and I will keep you from the hour of temptation, which is about to come upon the whole world, to try those dwelling upon the earth.