1 Thessalonians 2:13 Cross References - MLV

¹³ And we also are constantly giving-thanks to God because of this, because, when you accepted the word of God from our report, you accepted it not as the word of men, but just-as it truly is, the word of God, which is also working in you who believe.

²⁸ The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream. And he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat? says Jehovah. ²⁹ Is not my word like fire? says Jehovah and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

¹⁶ As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of Jehovah, we will not listen to you.

¹³ And if indeed the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it, but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you. ¹⁴ And whoever did not accept you, nor heard your words, when you go forth from that house or that city, shake-off the dust from your feet.

²⁰ For it is not you who speaks, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.

⁴⁰ He who accepts you, accepts me; and he who receives me, receives the one who sent me.

¹ Now it happened, while the crowd jammed against him to hear the word of God, that he was standing beside the lake of Gennesaret;

¹¹ Now the parable is this: the seed is the word of God.

²¹ But he answered and said to them, My mother and my brethren are those who hear the word of God and are doing it.

²⁸ But he said, But-rather, those who hear the word of God and are observing it, are fortunate.

³ Already you are clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

¹⁷ Make them holy in the truth; your word is truth.

¹⁹ And I make myself holy on their behalf, in order that they themselves may also be made holy in truth.

⁴¹ Therefore indeed, they, who gladly accepted his word, were immersed, and approximately three thousand souls was added to them in that day.

¹⁴ Now when the apostles who were in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them;

³³ Therefore, promptly I sent for you, and having come, you did well. Therefore, now we are all here in God’s sight, to hear all things which have been commanded to you by God.

⁴⁴ Now the coming Sabbath, almost all the city was gathered together to hear the word of God. ⁴⁵ But the Jews, having seen the crowds, were filled up from jealousy, and were contradicting the things being spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming him.
⁴⁶ But Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first be spoken to you. But since you are thrusting it away from yourselves and are judging yourselves unworthy of everlasting life. Behold, we turn to the Gentiles.

⁴⁸ And when the Gentiles heard this, they were rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and they believed as many as were appointing themselves toward everlasting life.

¹⁴ And a certain woman, Lydia by name, a seller of purple of the city of Thyatira was hearing us and worshiping God, whose heart the Lord opened to take-heed to the things being spoken from Paul.

³⁰ and having led them out, he said, Lords, what is essential for me to do in order that I might be saved?
³¹ Now they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved, you and your house. ³² And they spoke the word of the Lord to him, to all who were in his house. ³³ And having taken them in that same hour of the night, he fully-washed their lashes, and he and all his household were instantly immersed^*. \ulnone\nosupersub ³⁴ And he led them up into his house and placed a table before them, and was glad with all his household, all having believed in God.

¹¹ Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they accepted the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily, to see if these things were so.

¹⁸ Now also some of the Epicureans and Stoic philosophers were encountering him and some were saying, Whatever does this babbler wish to say?
Some said, He seems to be a proclaimer of strange demons, because he is proclaiming the good-news of Jesus and the resurrection.
¹⁹ And they grabbed him and led him to the Areopagus, saying, Are we able to know what this new teaching is, which is spoken by you? ²⁰ For you are bringing some surprising things to our ears. Therefore, we plan to know what these things might wish to be.

³² Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some were sneering, but some said, We will hear you concerning this again.

⁸ First indeed, I am giving-thanks to my God through Jesus Christ on behalf of all of you, that your faith is proclaimed in the whole world. ⁹ For God is my witness, to whom I am giving-divine service in my spirit in the good-news of his Son, as I constantly make a remembrance of you.

¹⁷ But gratitude to God, that, though you were bondservants of sin, you obeyed from the heart the pattern of teaching to which you were given; ¹⁸ and having been made free from sin, you were enslaved to righteousness.

¹⁷ Consequently, the faith comes from our report but our report comes through the declaration of God.

¹⁸ But we all, with our face having been unveiled, seeing the reflection of the glory of the Lord for ourselves, are being transfigured into the same image from glory into glory, just-as from the Lord, the Spirit.

¹⁴ And you did not scorn, nor spurn my test, which was in my flesh; but you accepted me as a messenger of God, even as Christ Jesus.

⁶ This good-news which is present for you; just-as it also is in all the world. And is bearing-fruit and growing, just-as it also does in you, from the day you heard and fully knew the grace of God in truth;

² We are always giving-thanks to God concerning all of you, making a remembrance of you in our prayers; ³ constantly remembering your work of the faith, and labor of love, and of the endurance of the hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father,

⁵ You know because our good-news did not happened to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much full assurance; just-as you know what manner of men we became among you, because of you. ⁶ And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, having accepted the word in much affliction with joy of the Holy Spirit; ⁷ so-that you became examples to all who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia. ⁸ For the word of the Lord has echoed forth from you, not only in Macedonia and in Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone forth; so-that we do not need to say anything. ⁹ For they themselves are reporting concerning us, what sort of entrance we had toward you, and how you turned from idols to God, to serve a living and true God, ¹⁰ and to await his Son Jesus from the heavens, whom he raised up from the dead; who rescues us from the coming wrath.

¹² For the word of God is living and effective and sharper beyond that of any two edged sword and is penetrating till the division of both soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow and is a judge of the contemplations and deliberations of the heart.

¹⁸ Having willed it, he gave-birth to us with the word of truth, that we might be a certain first-fruit of his created things.

²³ having been born again, not out of corruptible seed, but from the incorruptible, through the word of God, which is living and remaining forever.

²⁵ But the declaration of the Lord is abiding forever.’And this is the declaration of the good-news which was proclaimed to you.

² as newborn babies, long-for the logical milk which has no treachery, in order that you may grow in it;

¹⁶ For we did not follow wisely devised fables, when we made known to you the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, but in that, we became eyewitnesses of that majesty. ¹⁷ For having received honor and glory from God the Father, when such a voice was carried to him by the Majestic Glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am delighted. ¹⁸ And we heard this voice, having been carried from heaven, being together with him in the holy mountain. ¹⁹ And we have the steadfast prophetic word, (as to a lamp appearing in a dreary place, until the day should dawn and the morning-star might rise), to which you are doing well, and taking-heed in your hearts. ²⁰ Knowing this first, that every prophecy of Scripture does not come from one’s own interpretation. ²¹ For no prophecy was ever brought about by the will of man, but the holy men of God spoke the word being carried by the Holy Spirit.

² to be reminded of the declarations which have been spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandments from your apostles of the Lord and Savior.
³ And everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, just-as that man is pure.

⁴ Because everyone who has been born from God overcomes the world and this is the victory, our faith, that has overcome the world. ⁵ Who is he who overcomes the world, if not he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?