1 Thessalonians 2:13 Cross References - Goodspeed

¹³ We for our part constantly thank God for another reason too—because when you received God's message from our lips, you welcomed it not as the message of men but as the message of God, as it really is, which does its work in the hearts of you believers.

¹³ If the house deserves it, the peace you wish it will come over it, but if it does not deserve it, your blessing will come back upon yourselves. ¹⁴ And where no one will welcome you, or listen to you, leave that house or town and shake off its very dust from your feet.

²⁰ for it is not you who will speak, it is the Spirit of your Father that will speak through you.

⁴⁰ "Whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes him who has sent me.

¹ Once as the crowd was pressing about him to hear God's message, he happened to be standing by the Lake of Gennesaret,

¹¹ This is what the figure means. The seed is God's message.

²¹ He answered, "My mother and my brothers are those who listen to God's message and obey it!"

²⁸ But he said, "You might better say, 'Blessed are those who hear God's message and observe it!' "

³ You are pruned already because of the teaching that I have given you.

¹⁷ Consecrate them by truth. Your message is truth.

¹⁹ And it is for their sake that I consecrate myself, that they also may be consecrated by truth.

⁴¹ So they welcomed his message and were baptized, and about three thousand people joined them that day.

¹⁴ When the apostles at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted God's message, they sent Peter and John there.

³³ So I sent for you immediately, and you have very kindly come. Now we are all here in God's presence, to hear everything that the Lord has instructed you to say."

⁴⁴ The next Sabbath almost all the town gathered to hear God's message. ⁴⁵ But when the Jews saw the crowd, they were very jealous, and they contradicted what Paul said and abused him. ⁴⁶ Then Paul and Barnabas spoke out plainly, and said, "God's message had to be told to you first, but since you thrust it off and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, we now turn to the heathen.

⁴⁸ When the heathen heard this they were delighted, and praised God's message, and all who were destined for eternal life believed,

¹⁴ One of our hearers was a woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple goods, from the town of Thyatira. She was a believer in God, and the Lord touched her heart, and led her to accept Paul's teaching.

³⁰ He led them out of the jail and said to them, "Gentlemen, what must I do to be saved?" ³¹ "Believe in the Lord Jesus," they said, "and you and your household will be saved!" ³² Then they told God's message to him and to all the members of his household. ³³ And right then in the night, he took them and washed their wounds, and he and all his household were baptized immediately. ³⁴ Then he took them up to his house and offered them food, and he and all his household were very happy over their new faith in God.

¹¹ The Jews there were more high-minded than those at Thessalonica, and received the message with great eagerness and studied the Scriptures every day, to find out whether it was true.

¹⁸ Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers debated with him. Some of them said, "What is this rag-picker trying to make out?" Others said, "He seems to be preaching some foreign deities." This was because he was telling the good news of Jesus and the resurrection. ¹⁹ So they took him and brought him to the council of the Areopagus and said, "May we know just what this new teaching of yours is? ²⁰ Some of the things you tell us sound strange to us, and we want to know just what they mean."

³² When they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some of them sneered, but others said, "We should like to hear you again on this subject."

⁸ First I thank my God through Jesus Christ about you all, because the news of your faith is spreading all over the world. ⁹ As God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in spreading the good news of his Son, I never fail to mention you when I pray,

¹⁷ But, thank God! though you were once slaves of sin, you have become obedient from your hearts to the standard of teaching that you received, ¹⁸ and so you have been freed from sin, and made slaves of uprightness.

¹⁷ So faith comes from hearing what is told, and that hearing comes through the message about Christ.

¹⁸ And all of us, reflecting the splendor of the Lord in our unveiled faces, are being changed into likeness to him, from one degree of splendor to another, for this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

¹⁴ and yet what must have tried you in my physical condition, you did not scorn and despise, but you welcomed me like an angel of God, like Christ Jesus himself.

⁶ came among you, to thrive and bear its fruit among you, as it does all over the world, from the time when you first heard about the mercy of God,

² We always thank God for you all when we mention you in our prayers, ³ for we can never forget before our God and Father your energetic faith, your loving service, and your unwavering expectation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁵ for our preaching of the good news did not come to you as mere words but with power and the holy Spirit and full conviction—you know the kind of life we lived among you for your good. ⁶ And you followed the example set by us and by the Lord, for though our message brought you great trouble, you welcomed it with joy inspired by the holy Spirit, ⁷ so that you set an example to all the believers in Macedonia and Greece. ⁸ For the Lord's message has rung out from you not only over Macedonia and Greece, but the story of your belief in God has gone everywhere, so that we never need to mention it. ⁹ For when people speak of us, they tell what a welcome you gave us, and how you turned from idols to God, to serve a true and living God, ¹⁰ and to wait for the coming from heaven of his Son, whom he raised from the dead—Jesus, our deliverer from God's coming wrath.

¹² For the message of God is a living and active force, sharper than any double-edged sword, piercing through soul and spirit, and joints and marrow, and keen in judging the thoughts and purposes of the mind.

¹⁸ Of his own accord he brought us into being through the message of truth, so that we might be a kind of first-fruits among his creatures.

²³ for you have been born anew from a germ not perishable, but imperishable, through the message of the living, everlasting God.

²⁵ But the word of the Lord will last forever," that is, the good news that has been brought to you.

² and like new-born babes crave the pure spiritual milk that will make you grow up to salvation,

¹⁶ For they were no fictitious stories that we followed when we informed you of the power of our Lord Jesus Christ and of his coming, but we had been eye-witnesses of his majesty. ¹⁷ For when he was so honored and glorified by God the Father and from the supreme glory there were borne to him such words as these: "This is my Son, my Beloved! He is my Chosen!"— ¹⁸ we heard these words borne from heaven when we were with him on that sacred mountain. ¹⁹ So we have the message of the prophets more fully guaranteed. Please pay attention to that message as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts. ²⁰ You must understand this in the first place, that no prophecy in Scripture can be understood through one's own powers, ²¹ for no prophecy ever originated in the human will, but under the influence of the holy Spirit men spoke for God.

² to remember the things foretold by the holy prophets, and the command of the Lord and Savior through your apostles. ³ And everyone who possesses this hope in him tries to make himself as pure as he is.

⁴ for every child of God is victorious over the world. Our faith is the victory that has triumphed over the world. ⁵ For who is there that is victorious over the world except the man who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?