1 Thessalonians 3:6

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

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.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

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

and having fitted your feet with the preparation of the Good News of peace,

And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!”

Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”

If you love me, keep my commandments.

Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.

I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.’

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

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,

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.

For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.

You who tell good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain. You who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with strength! Lift it up! Don’t be afraid! Say to the cities of Judah, “Behold, your God!”

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.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

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.

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,

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, Judah! Perform your vows, for the wicked one will no more pass through you. He is utterly cut off.

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, “Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until today.”

For I most certainly, as being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has done this thing.

When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. When one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

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

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

where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free person; but Christ is all, and in all.

night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

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.

So then, brothers, stand firm and hold the traditions which you were taught by us, whether by word or by letter.

having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

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;

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Yahweh reigns! He is clothed with majesty! Yahweh is armed with strength. The world also is established. It can’t be moved.

The light of the eyes rejoices the heart. Good news gives health to the bones.

Then the moon will be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for Yahweh of Armies will reign on Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem; and glory will be before his elders.

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

The angel said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be to all the people.

When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.”

But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens. Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him very quickly, they departed.

and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.

for he powerfully refuted the Jews, publicly showing by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.

Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.

This greeting is by me, Paul, with my own hand.

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.

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.

But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,

which some profess, and thus have wandered from the faith. Grace be with you. Amen.

The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.

Greet all of your leaders and all the saints. The Italians greet you.

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

Like cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.

But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news, who proclaims salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!”

Let all that you do be done in love.

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

For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

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

The report concerning them came to the ears of the assembly which was in Jerusalem. They sent out Barnabas to go as far as Antioch,

After some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let’s return now and visit our brothers in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing.”

He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his father was a Greek.

After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth.

Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you, as do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my relatives.

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

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.

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

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

The salutation of me, Paul, with my own hand: remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.

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.

But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire,

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,

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,

I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day

hearing of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all the saints,

Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.

Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.

This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.

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.