1 Thessalonians 3:7 Cross References - RKJNT

⁷ Therefore, brethren, in the midst of our affliction and distress, we were comforted about you because of your faith:

⁴ And some of them believed, and joined Paul and Silas; as did a great multitude of the devout Greeks, and not a few of the chief women. ⁵ But the Jews who did not believe were moved with envy, and took certain wicked fellows of the rabble, and gathered a crowd, and set all the city in an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people. ⁶ And when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and certain brethren to the rulers of the city, crying out, These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also; ⁷ And Jason has welcomed them: and they do all that is contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus. ⁸ And the people and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things. ⁹ And when they had taken security from Jason, and from the others, they let them go. ¹⁰ And the brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived they went into the synagogue of the Jews.

⁹ For I think that God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as if we were condemned to death: for we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men. ¹⁰ We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are honoured, but we are despised. ¹¹ Even to this present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are ill-clothed, and are buffeted, and are homeless; ¹² And we labour, working with our own hands: when reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure it: ¹³ When slandered, we answer kindly; we have been made the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things, even to this day.

⁴ Who comforts us in all our troubles, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

⁶ But God, who comforts those who are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus; ⁷ And not by his coming only, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you, when he told us of your earnest desire, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced still more.

¹³ Therefore we are comforted. And besides our comfort, we especially rejoiced at the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.

²³ Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more so; in labours more abundant, in beatings beyond number, in prison more frequently, in danger of death often. ²⁴ From the Jews I five times received forty lashes less one. ²⁵ Thrice I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have spent in the deep; ²⁶ On frequent journeys, in perils from rivers, in perils from robbers, in perils from my own countrymen, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils on the sea, in perils among false brethren; ²⁷ In toil and hardship, in many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and nakedness. ²⁸ Beside those things that are external, there is upon me the daily pressure of concern for all the churches.

⁸ For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord. ⁹ For what thanks can we render to God for you, for all the joy which we have before our God because of you; ¹⁰ But you have fully known my teaching, manner of life, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness, ¹¹ Persecutions, afflictions, such as befell me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; the persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me. ¹² Yes, and all who will live godly lives in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

⁴ I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children walking in truth, just as we have been commanded by the Father.