2 Thessalonians 1:4

American Standard Version (1901)

so 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;

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  • 1 Thess 2:14 : 14 For ye, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus: for ye also suffered the same things of your own countrymen, even as they did of the Jews;
  • 1 Thess 2:19 : 19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of glorying? Are not even ye, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?
  • 2 Cor 7:14 : 14 For if in anything I have gloried to him on your behalf, I was not put to shame; but as we spake all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.
  • 1 Thess 1:3 : 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 Cor 7:17 : 17 Only, as the Lord hath distributed to each man, as God hath called each, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all the churches.
  • 2 Cor 9:2 : 2 for I know your readiness, of which I glory on your behalf to them of Macedonia, that Achaia hath been prepared for a year past; and your zeal hath stirred up very many of them.
  • 2 Cor 9:4 : 4 lest by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be put to shame in this confidence.
  • Rom 2:7 : 7 to them that by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and incorruption, eternal life:
  • Rom 5:3-5 : 3 And not only so, but we also rejoice in our tribulations: knowing that tribulation worketh stedfastness; 4 and stedfastness, approvedness; and approvedness, hope: 5 and hope putteth not to shame; because the love of God hath been shed abroad in our hearts through the Holy Spirit which was given unto us.
  • Rom 8:25 : 25 But if we hope for that which we see not, [then] do we with patience wait for it.
  • Rom 12:12 : 12 rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing stedfastly in prayer;
  • 1 Thess 3:2-8 : 2 and sent Timothy, our brother and God's minister in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort [you] concerning your faith; 3 that no man be moved by these afflictions; for yourselves know that hereunto we are appointed. 4 For verily, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction; even as it came to pass, and ye know. 5 For this cause I also, when I could no longer forbear, sent that I might know your faith, lest by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor should be in vain. 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; 7 for this cause, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith: 8 for now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.
  • 2 Thess 3:5 : 5 And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of Christ.
  • Heb 6:15 : 15 And thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
  • Heb 10:36 : 36 For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.
  • Heb 12:1-3 : 1 Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 2 looking unto Jesus the author and perfecter of [our] faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and hath sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 For consider him that hath endured such gainsaying of sinners against himself, that ye wax not weary, fainting in your souls.
  • Jas 1:3-4 : 3 Knowing that the proving of your faith worketh patience. 4 And let patience have [its] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.
  • Jas 5:7-8 : 7 Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receive the early and latter rain. 8 Be ye also patient; establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
  • Jas 5:11 : 11 Behold, we call them blessed that endured: ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, how that the Lord is full of pity, and merciful.
  • 2 Pet 1:6 : 6 and in [your] knowledge self-control; and in [your] self-control patience; and in [your] patience godliness;
  • Rev 14:12 : 12 Here is the patience of the saints, they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

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