1 Thessalonians 5:16

Pray without ceasing.

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,

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

Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!”

But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves.

who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and don’t please God, and are contrary to all men,

yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!

Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets.

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

What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”

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

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

make my joy full by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.

But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.

Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin—and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written.”

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

“At that time Michael will stand up, the great prince who stands for the children of your people; and there will be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time. At that time your people will be delivered, everyone who is found written in the book.

Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

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

See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

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.

Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

Yes, I beg you also, true partner, help these women, for they labored with me in the Good News with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.

Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,

to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials,

And we write these things to you, that our joy may be fulfilled.

Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.

Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.

Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

Let my meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in Yahweh.

All the days of the afflicted are wretched, but one who has a cheerful heart enjoys a continual feast.

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!

Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”

Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.

Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;

Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.

as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. We also pray for this: your becoming perfect.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

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

We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,

let’s hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

“I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

He who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments, and I will in no way blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.

I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.

There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.

Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us.

The righteous shall be glad in Yahweh, and shall take refuge in him. All the upright in heart shall praise him!

While I live, I will praise Yahweh. I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist.

It will happen that he who is left in Zion and he who remains in Jerusalem shall be called holy, even everyone who is written among the living in Jerusalem,

“My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and who utter lying divinations. They will not be in the council of my people, neither will they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither will they enter into the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.”

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.

through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

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.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly,

Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.

You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.

Nevertheless, don’t rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord! To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe.

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

You shall rejoice in your feast, you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates.

But let the righteous be glad. Let them rejoice before God. Yes, let them rejoice with gladness.

But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for, behold, I create Jerusalem to be a delight, and her people a joy.

Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.