1 Thessalonians 1:3

But you be strong, and don’t let your hands be slack; for your work will be rewarded.”

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

Let all that you do be done in love.

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without fear, for he does the work of the Lord, as I also do.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

Pray without ceasing.

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

For he will never be shaken. The righteous will be remembered forever.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

When Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.

Moreover your servant is warned by them. In keeping them there is great reward.

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.

For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.

For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.

To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power,

This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

But since we belong to the day, let’s be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.

This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil;

“I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds,

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which you have toward all the saints,

so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.

For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Many waters can’t quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.

“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,

and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your gifts to the needy are remembered in the sight of God.

to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

Greet Mary, who labored much for us.

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Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father—

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

We know, brothers loved by God, that you are chosen,

But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you,

For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,

Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only son,

make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?

You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected.

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

“I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.

You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.

“By your endurance you will win your lives.

Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”

Peter got up and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper room. All the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.

to all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Greet Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labor in the Lord. Greet Persis, the beloved, who labored much in the Lord.

If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable.

that you also be in subjection to such, and to everyone who helps in the work and labors.

For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which you have toward all the saints,

from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.

For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.

Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.

Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.