1 Thessalonians 3:3 Cross References - Sawyer

³ that no one should be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed for this;

^{16 (7:2)} Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves; be therefore wise as serpents and harmless as doves. ¹⁷ But beware of men; for they will deliver you to Sanhedrims, and scourge you in their synagogues, ¹⁸ and you shall be brought before governors, and kings, for my sake, for a testimony to them and the nations.

^{9 (22:2)} Then they shall deliver you to affliction, and kill you, and you shall be hated by all nations on my account; ¹⁰ and then many shall be offended, and shall betray one another, and hate one another;

¹² But before all these things they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, committing you to synagogues and prisons, to be brought before kings and governors on my account;

¹⁹ If you were of this world, the world would be a friend to its own; but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. ²⁰ Remember the word which I said to you, a servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my word, they will also keep yours. ²¹ But all these things they will do to you, on my account, because they know not him that sent me.

² They shall put you out of the synagogues; but the hour is coming when every one that kills you will think he renders God a service.

³³ These things have I told you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you shall have affliction; but be of good courage, I have overcome the world.

²⁵ For David says of him, I saw the Lord always before me, he is on my right hand that I should not be moved;

¹⁶ for I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name.

²² confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God.

²³ except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city, saying, That bonds and afflictions await me. ²⁴ But life precious to myself, I make of no account that I may finish my course and the service which I received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

¹¹ and coming to us, and taking Paul's girdle, and binding his hands and feet, he said, These things, says the Holy Spirit; Thus will the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owns this girdle, and deliver him into the hands of the gentiles.

¹³ But Paul answered, What do you do, to weep and break my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord Jesus.

³ And not only [this], but we rejoice also in afflictions, knowing that affliction works out patience,

³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall affliction or distress, persecution or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or the sword? ³⁶ As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day; we are accounted as sheep for slaughter. ³⁷ But in all these things we more than conquer, through him who loved us.

⁹ For I think that God has shown us the apostles last, as devoted to death, for we have been made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

⁵⁸ Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

^{13 (1:7)} Wherefore I desire you not to faint on account of my afflictions for you, which are your glory.

²⁸ terrified in nothing by the adversaries, which is to them a token of destruction, but to you of salvation, and this from God;

²³ if indeed you continue founded and established in the faith, and not moved from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached in all the creation under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a minister.

⁹ for God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

⁴ so that we boast of you in the churches of God, of your patience and faith, in all your persecutions and the afflictions which you endure,

^{8 (1:3)} Be not ashamed therefore of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but endure affliction with us in the gospel according to the power of God,

¹¹ persecutions, sufferings, which befell me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; the great persecutions which I suffered, and the Lord delivered me from all. ¹² And all who will live piously in Christ Jesus shall be persecuted.

²¹ For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you a copy that you should follow his steps,

^{12 (3:1)} BELOVED, think not strange of the fiery trial which is to try you, as if some strange thing happened to you, ¹³ but as you partake of the sufferings of Christ rejoice, that you may also rejoice exulting at the revelation of his glory. ¹⁴ If you are reproached for the name of Christ, happy are you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.

¹⁰ Fear not what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to cast some of you into prison, that you may be tried, and you shall have affliction ten days. Be faithful till death, and I will give you the crown of life.

¹³ I know your works and where you live; where Satan's throne is; and you hold my name, and did not deny my faith in the days in which Antipas my faithful martyr was killed among you, where Satan dwells.