1 Thessalonians 2:20

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.

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.

to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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.

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ’s, at his coming.

as also you acknowledged us in part, that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness.

Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

Gray hair is a crown of glory. It is attained by a life of righteousness.

For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.

But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I not press too heavily) to you all.

For we are not commending ourselves to you again, but speak as giving you occasion of boasting on our behalf, that you may have something to answer those who boast in appearance, and not in heart.

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

looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,

With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men who are made in the image of God.

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.

“Behold, I come quickly. My reward is with me, to repay to each man according to his work.

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. You will bear children in pain. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph’s knees.

Nevertheless, I will not do it in your days, for David your father’s sake; but I will tear it out of your son’s hand.

Nevertheless for David’s sake, Yahweh his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem;

when the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were around me,

After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, to four generations.

You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet:

Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock.

As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth.

Yes, may you see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel.

She will give to your head a garland of grace. She will deliver a crown of splendor to you.”

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

Righteous lips are the delight of kings. They value one who speaks the truth.

Children’s children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.

If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn child is better than he:

My own vineyard is before me. The thousand are for you, Solomon, two hundred for those who tend its fruit.

Lift up your eyes all around, and see: all these gather themselves together, and come to you. As I live,” says Yahweh, “you shall surely clothe yourself with them all as with an ornament, and dress yourself with them, like a bride.

You will also be a crown of beauty in Yahweh‘s hand, and a royal diadem in your God’s hand.

“ ‘How do you say, “We are wise, and Yahweh’s law is with us?” But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has made that a lie.

He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,

If any man’s work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.

For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.

I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so you are also of the comfort.

For if I make you grieve, then who will make me glad but he who is made to grieve by me?

Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.

and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you while he told us of your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more.

for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to those of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for the past year. Your zeal has stirred up very many of them.

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

so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,

that your rejoicing may abound in Christ Jesus in me through my presence with you again.

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God,

For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep.

Now, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to him, we ask you

(the Lord grant to him to find the Lord’s mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.

For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away.

For we didn’t follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.”

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.

Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,

Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.