Verse 9

For what thanks can we render to God for you in return for all the joy with which we rejoice because of you before our God.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Cor 9:15 : 15 Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!
  • 1 Thess 1:2-3 : 2 We always give thanks to God for all of you, mentioning you in our prayers without ceasing. 3 We remember your work produced by faith, your labor motivated by love, and your endurance inspired by the hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father.
  • 1 Thess 2:19 : 19 For what is our hope, our joy, or the crown in which we will glory in the presence of our Lord Jesus when He comes? Is it not indeed you?
  • 1 Thess 3:7-8 : 7 For this reason, brothers, in all our distress and affliction, we were comforted about you through your faith. 8 For now we live, if you stand firm in the Lord.
  • Deut 12:2 : 2 Completely destroy all the places where the nations you are dispossessing worshiped their gods—on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.
  • Deut 12:18 : 18 Instead, you are to eat these in the presence of the Lord your God, at the place the Lord your God will choose—you, your son and daughter, your male and female servants, and the Levite within your gates. Rejoice before the Lord your God in everything you undertake.
  • Deut 16:11 : 11 Rejoice before the Lord your God—you, your son and daughter, your male and female servants, the Levite in your towns, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow living among you, in the place the Lord your God chooses to establish His name.
  • 2 Sam 6:21 : 21 David said to Michal, 'It was before the LORD who chose me rather than your father or anyone from his house when He appointed me ruler over the people of the LORD, over Israel. I will celebrate before the LORD!'
  • 2 Sam 7:18-20 : 18 Then King David went in and sat before the LORD, and he said, "Who am I, O Lord GOD, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far? 19 And yet this was a small thing in your eyes, O Lord GOD. You have also spoken of your servant's house for a long time to come, and this is instruction for mankind, O Lord GOD! 20 And what more can David say to you? For you know your servant, O Lord GOD.
  • Neh 9:5 : 5 Then the Levites—Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah—said: Stand up and bless the LORD your God who is from everlasting to everlasting. Blessed be Your glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.
  • Ps 68:3 : 3 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away; as wax melts before fire, let the wicked perish before God.
  • Ps 71:14-15 : 14 But as for me, I will always have hope; I will praise you more and more. 15 My mouth will tell of your righteous deeds, of your salvation all day long, though I cannot count them all.
  • Ps 96:12-13 : 12 Let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them; let all the trees of the forest sing for joy. 13 Let all this happen before the LORD, for he is coming—he is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples in his faithfulness.
  • Ps 98:8-9 : 8 Let the rivers clap their hands, let the mountains sing together with joy. 9 Before the LORD, for He is coming to judge the earth; He will judge the world with righteousness and the peoples with equity.
  • 2 Cor 2:14 : 14 But thanks be to God, who always leads us in Christ’s triumphal procession and manifests the aroma of the knowledge of Him through us in every place.