2 Thessalonians 1:3

American Standard Version (1901)

We are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, even as it is meet, for that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all toward one another aboundeth;

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  • 2 Thess 2:13 : 13 But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, for that God chose you from the beginning unto salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
  • 1 Thess 4:1 : 1 Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk,--that ye abound more and more.
  • 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the heart fervently:
  • 2 Pet 1:5-9 : 5 Yea, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply virtue; and in [your] virtue knowledge; 6 and in [your] knowledge self-control; and in [your] self-control patience; and in [your] patience godliness; 7 and in [your] godliness brotherly kindness; and in [your] brotherly kindness love. 8 For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful unto the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 For he that lacketh these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins. 10 Wherefore, brethren, give the more diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never stumble:
  • Rom 1:8 : 8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.
  • 1 Cor 1:4 : 4 I thank my God always concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus;
  • Eph 5:20 : 20 giving thanks always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father;
  • Phil 1:7 : 7 even as it is right for me to be thus minded on behalf of you all, because I have you in my heart, inasmuch as, both in my bonds and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers with me of grace.
  • Phil 1:9 : 9 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;
  • 1 Thess 1:2-3 : 2 We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention [of you] in our prayers; 3 remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;
  • 1 Thess 3:6 : 6 But when Timothy came even now unto us from you, and brought us glad tidings of your faith and love, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, longing to see us, even as we also [to see] you;
  • 1 Thess 3:9 : 9 For what thanksgiving can we render again unto God for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;
  • 1 Thess 3:12 : 12 and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also [do] toward you;
  • Job 17:9 : 9 Yet shall the righteous hold on his way, And he that hath clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger.
  • Ps 84:7 : 7 They go from strength to strength; Every one of them appeareth before God in Zion.
  • Ps 92:13 : 13 They are planted in the house of Jehovah; They shall flourish in the courts of our God.
  • Prov 4:18 : 18 But the path of the righteous is as the dawning light, That shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
  • Isa 40:29-31 : 29 He giveth power to the faint; and to him that hath no might he increaseth strength. 30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: 31 but they that wait for Jehovah shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.
  • Luke 15:32 : 32 But it was meet to make merry and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive [again] ; and [was] lost, and is found.
  • Luke 17:5 : 5 And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.
  • John 15:2 : 2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh it away: and every [branch] that beareth fruit, he cleanseth it, that it may bear more fruit.
  • 2 Pet 1:13 : 13 And I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
  • 2 Pet 3:18 : 18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him [be] the glory both now and for ever. Amen.
  • 1 Thess 4:9-9 : 9 But concerning love of the brethren ye have no need that one write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another; 10 for indeed ye do it toward all the brethren that are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brethren, that ye abound more and more;

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  • 1 Thess 3:6-12
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    6But when Timothy came even now unto us from you, and brought us glad tidings of your faith and love, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, longing to see us, even as we also [to see] you;

    7for this cause, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith:

    8for now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.

    9For what thanksgiving can we render again unto God for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;

    10night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

    11Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way unto you:

    12and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also [do] toward you;

  • 1 Thess 1:2-3
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    2We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention [of you] in our prayers;

    3remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

  • 2 Thess 1:4
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    4so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which ye endure;

  • 1 Cor 1:4-5
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    4I thank my God always concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus;

    5that in everything ye were enriched in him, in all utterance and all knowledge;

  • Col 1:3-4
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    3We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,

    4having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have toward all the saints,

  • Phil 1:3-5
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    3I thank my God upon all my remembrance of you,

    4always in every supplication of mine on behalf of you all making my supplication with joy,

    5for your fellowship in furtherance of the gospel from the first day until now;

  • Phlm 1:4-8
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    4I thank my God always, making mention of thee in my prayers,

    5hearing of thy love, and of the faith which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all the saints;

    6that the fellowship of thy faith may become effectual, in the knowledge of every good thing which is in you, unto Christ.

    7For I had much joy and comfort in thy love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through thee, brother.

    8Wherefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to enjoin thee that which is befitting,

  • Eph 1:15-16
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    15For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which [ye show] toward all the saints,

    16cease not to give thanks for you, making mention [of you] in my prayers;

  • 1 Thess 4:10
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    10for indeed ye do it toward all the brethren that are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brethren, that ye abound more and more;

  • 2 Thess 1:11-12
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    11To which end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfil every desire of goodness and [every] work of faith, with power;

    12that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

  • 2 Cor 8:7
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    7But as ye abound in everything, [in] faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and [in] all earnestness, and [in] your love to us, [see] that ye abound in this grace also. [

  • 2 Cor 1:11-12
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    11ye also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift bestowed upon us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on our behalf.

    12For our glorifying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

  • 2 Cor 9:11
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    11ye being enriched in everything unto all liberality, which worketh through us thanksgiving to God.

  • Rom 1:8
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    8First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

  • 1 Thess 1:7-8
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    7so that ye became an ensample to all that believe in Macedonia and in Achaia.

    8For from you hath sounded forth the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith to God-ward is gone forth; so that we need not to speak anything.

  • 2 Cor 4:15
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    15For all things [are] for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound unto the glory of God.

  • 2 Thess 2:13
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    13But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, for that God chose you from the beginning unto salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

  • Col 2:7
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    7rooted and builded up in him, and established in your faith, even as ye were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

  • 2 Thess 1:2
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    2Grace to you and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

  • 1 Thess 2:13
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    13And for this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when ye received from us the word of the message, [even the word] of God, ye accepted [it] not [as] the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also worketh in you that believe.

  • 2 Pet 1:7
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    7and in [your] godliness brotherly kindness; and in [your] brotherly kindness love.

  • Phil 1:7
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    7even as it is right for me to be thus minded on behalf of you all, because I have you in my heart, inasmuch as, both in my bonds and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers with me of grace.

  • Phil 1:9
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    9And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;

  • 2 Cor 9:14
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    14while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, long after you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you.

  • 3 John 1:5
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    5Beloved, thou doest a faithful work in whatsoever thou doest toward them that are brethren and strangers withal;

  • 1 Thess 4:1
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    1Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk,--that ye abound more and more.

  • Col 1:10
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    10to walk worthily of the Lord unto all pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

  • Col 1:8
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    8who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.

  • Eph 5:20
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    20giving thanks always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father;

  • 2 Cor 7:15
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    15And his affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembereth the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.

  • 2 Cor 8:16
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    16But thanks be to God, who putteth the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.