1 Thessalonians 2:13 Cross References - MNT

¹³ For this reason also I am giving continual thanks to God, because when you heard from me the spoken word of God, you received it not as the word of men, but as the word of God (which in truth it is), who himself is effectually at work in you believe.

¹³ "and if the house is worthy let your blessing sit upon it; but if it be unworthy, let your blessing return to you. ¹⁴ "And whoever will not receive you or listen to your words, as you go out from that house or that city, shake off the very dust from your feet.

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

⁴⁰ "Whoever receives you is receiving me, and he who receives me is receiving Him who sent me.

¹ On one occasion when he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret, the crowd pressed upon him to listen to the word of God.

¹¹ "This is the meaning of the parable. The seed is the word of God.

²¹ "My mother and brothers," he answered, "are those who listen to the word of God and obey it."

²⁸ "No, rather," he answered, "blessed are those who listen to the word of God, and keep it."

³ "Now you are clean through the word which I have spoken to you.

¹⁷ Dedicate them in thy truth; thy word is truth.

¹⁹ And for their sakes I dedicate myself, that they also may be thoroughly dedicated in the truth.

⁴¹ Then those who welcomed his message were baptized, and in that day about three thousand souls were added to them;

¹⁴ The apostle at Jerusalem, when they heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, sent to them Peter and John.

³³ "So I sent for you without delay, and you have been kind enough to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God, to listen to what the Lord has commanded you to speak."

⁴⁴ On the next Sabbath almost the entire city was gathered together to know the word of God. ⁴⁵ When they saw the crowds, the Jews were filled with jealousy, and began to contradict Paul's statements, and to abuse him. ⁴⁶ So Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly. "It was necessary," they said, "first to proclaim the word of God to you. But since you push it away from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.

⁴⁸ When the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord, and all who had been ordained to eternal life, believed.

¹⁴ Among them was a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, who belonged to the town of Thyatira. She, since she was a worshiper of God, listened to us, and the Lord opened her heart to attend to what Paul said.

³⁰ and brought them out, saying, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?" ³¹ "Believe on the Lord Jesus," they answered, "and you will be saved, you and all your household." ³² Then they spoke the message of the Lord to him, as well as to all who were in his house. ³³ And he took them, the same hour of the night, and washed their wounds, and he was baptized at once, he and all his. ³⁴ And after bringing them up into his house, he set food before them, overjoyed with all his household in having believed in God.

¹¹ The Jews of Berea were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they very readily received the message with all readiness of mind, and day after day searched the Scriptures to see whether these things were so.

¹⁸ A few of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also encountered him again and again. Some were saying, "What has this beggarly fellow to say?" Others said, "He seems to be a setter forth of strange gods," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection. ¹⁹ Then they laid hold of him and brought him up to Mars Hill, saying. "May we be told what this new teaching of yours is? ²⁰ "For you are bringing certain strange things to our ears. We want to know, therefore, what these things mean."

³² But on hearing of the resurrection of the dead, some began to mock; but others said, "We will hear you again on that subject."

⁸ First I thank my God, through Jesus Christ, for all of you, because your faith is being proclaimed throughout all the world. ⁹ God is my witness, to whom I render holy service in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how unceasingly I am ever making mention of you in my prayers,

¹⁷ But God be thanked that you who were once the slaves of sin have obeyed from your hearts that type of teaching to which you were appointed; ¹⁸ and being set free from sin, you became the slaves of righteousness—

¹⁷ So faith comes from a message heard, and the message comes from the teaching of Christ.

¹⁸ And we all, with unveiled faces, reflecting like a mirror the glory of the Lord, are ourselves continually being transformed into the same likeness, from glory to glory, as by the Lord, the Spirit.

¹⁴ and although my bodily affliction was a trial to you, you did not scoff at it nor spurn me, but welcomed me like an angel of God, like Christ Jesus himself.

⁶ And just as it is spreading through the whole world, bearing fruit and increasing, so also is it among you, from the day in which you heard it, and came truly to know the grace of God,

² I am continually thanking God for all, always making mention of you in my prayers, ³ as I call to mind your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the presence of our God and Father.

⁵ for my gospel did not come to you in word only, but in power also, and in the Holy Spirit, and with deep conviction. For you know also the manner in which I behaved myself among you for your sakes. ⁶ Moreover, you began to follow the pattern I set you, and the Lord's also, receiving the word with joy in the Holy Spirit, although amid severe persecution. ⁷ Thus you became a pattern to all the believers in Macedonia and Achaia. ⁸ For the word of the Lord has been sounded forth from you, and its sound has been heard not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place where the tidings of your faith toward God have been spread abroad, so that I have no need to speak of it. ⁹ For others, of their own accord, tell about the welcome I had from you, and how you turned to God from your idols, to be slaved of a true and living God, ¹⁰ and to await for the coming of his Son from the heavens, the Son whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, our Deliverer from the wrath to come.

¹² For living is the Word of God, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the severance of soul form spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the very thoughts and conceptions of the heart.

¹⁸ Because he willed, he gave us birth through the word of truth, so that we should be a kind of first-fruits among his creatures.

²³ For you have been born anew, not of perishable, but of imperishable seed, by the living, lasting word of God.

²⁵ But the word of the Lord abides forever. And this is the word of the gospel which has been told to you.

² Like new-born babes long for the pure spiritual milk to make you grow up into salvation;

¹⁶ For we were not following cunningly devised fables, when we told you of the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we had been eye-witnesses of his Majesty. ¹⁷ For he did receive honor and glory from God the Father, when there was borne such a voice to him from the Majestic Glory, This is my Son, my Beloved, in whom I delight; ¹⁸ and this voice we ourselves heard, borne to us out of heaven, when we were with him on the holy hill. ¹⁹ And so we possess the word of prophecy made yet more sure. Unto this you do well to give heed as to a lamp shining in a dark place, till the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts. ²⁰ But first be assured of this—that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation. ²¹ For no prophecy was ever brought by the will of man; but moved by the Holy Spirit, men spoke for God.

² I want you to recollect the words that were foretold by the holy prophets, and the command of your Lord and Saviour, given you through your apostles. ³ And every one who is holding this hope in him is purifying himself, even as he is pure.

⁴ For whoever is a child of God is overcoming the world; and our faith is the victory that has overcome the world. ⁵ And who it the one that is overcoming the world if not the man who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?