1 Thessalonians 5:12

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.

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

Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain.” And, “The laborer is worthy of his wages.”

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

“ ‘You shall rise up before the gray head and honor the face of the elderly; and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

I will lay the key of David’s house on his shoulder. He will open, and no one will shut. He will shut, and no one will open.

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

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.

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.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—

His head and his hair were white as white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire.

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

For however many are the promises of God, in him is the “Yes.” Therefore also through him is the “Amen”, to the glory of God through us.

for he who worked through Peter in the apostleship with the circumcised also worked through me with the Gentiles—

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

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

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.

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

Therefore comfort one another with these words.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.

Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

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

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.

according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it,

John, to the seven assemblies that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from God, who is and who was and who is to come; and from the seven Spirits who are before his throne;

He had seven stars in his right hand. Out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest.

Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.

I will give to you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven; and whatever you release on earth will have been released in heaven.”

He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David,

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.

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the commandment of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope;

Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

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

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

saying, “What you see, write in a book and send to the seven assemblies: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”

Repent therefore, or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.

They cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

I will tell of the decree: Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.

I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

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

Therefore we have been comforted. In our comfort we rejoiced the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance:

Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober minded.

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”

Then he said to them, “The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that he may send out laborers into his harvest.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

For they refreshed my spirit and yours. Therefore acknowledge those who are like that.

Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such people in honor,

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

Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Don’t go from house to house.

We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;

but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;

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

“To the angel of the assembly in Smyrna write: “The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life says these things:

“To the angel of the assembly in Pergamum write: “He who has the sharp two-edged sword says these things:

“To the angel of the assembly in Thyatira write: “The Son of God, who has his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet are like burnished brass, says these things:

“And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: “He who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars says these things: “I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.

“To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:

“To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: “The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of God’s creation, says these things:

I sent you to reap that for which you haven’t labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.

God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.

Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,

Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.

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

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.

But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered up when I know how you are doing.

for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.

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.

Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.

The farmer who labors must be the first to get a share of the crops.

Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one despise you.