1 Thessalonians 2:8 Cross References - Wesley

⁸ So, loving you tenderly, we were ready to impart to you not only the gospel of God, but our own souls also, because ye were dear to us.

²³ Save that the Holy Ghost testifieth to me in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions await me. ²⁴ But none of these things move me; nor do I count my life precious to myself, so I may finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

¹ Brethren, the desire of my heart, and my prayer to God for Israel is, that they may be saved.

¹⁷ Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all.

²⁰ For I have none like-minded, who will naturally care for what concerneth you.

²⁵ Yet I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and companion in labour and fellow-soldier, but your messenger, and him that ministered to my need. ²⁶ For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because ye had heard that he was sick.

¹ Therefore, my brethren, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my beloved.

⁷ As ye likewise learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow-servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ for you:

²⁸ Whom we preach, admonishing every man, and teaching every man, that we may present every man perfect through Christ Jesus.

² And a certain centurion's servant, who was dear to him, was sick and ready to die.

¹¹ For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, ¹² that ye may be established, That is, to be comforted together with you, by the mutual faith both of you and me.

¹ I say the truth in Christ, I lie not; my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost? ² That I have great sorrow and continual anguish in my heart. ³ For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ, for my brethren, my kinsmen after the flesh:

²⁹ And I know that when I come to you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.

¹ We then, as fellow-labourers, do also exhort you, not to receive the grace of God in vain.

¹¹ O ye Corinthians, our mouth is opened toward you, our heart is inlarged. ¹² Ye are not straitened in us; but ye are straitened in your own bowels. ¹³ Now for a recompence of the same, (I speak as to my children) be ye also inlarged.

¹⁵ And I will most gladly spend, and be spent for your souls, though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.

¹⁹ My little children, of whom I travail in birth again, till Christ be formed in you,

⁸ For God is my witness, how I long for you all, with the bowels of Jesus Christ.

¹² Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayer, that ye may stand, perfect and filled, with all the will of God.

¹ Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timotheus a brother, to Philemon the beloved and our fellow-labourer,

¹⁷ Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves; for they watch over your souls, as they that must give account; that they may do this with joy, and not with groans: for that is unprofitable for you.

¹⁶ Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.