1 Thessalonians 3:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For how great is the praise which we give to God for you, and how great the joy with which we are glad because of you before our God;

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Cor 9:15 : 15 Praise be to God for what he has given, which words have no power to say.
  • 1 Thess 1:2-3 : 2 We give praise to God at all times for you, keeping you in memory in our prayers; 3 Having ever in mind your work of faith and acts of love and the strength of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;
  • 1 Thess 2:19 : 19 For what is our hope or joy or crown of glory? Are not even you, before our Lord Jesus, at his coming?
  • 1 Thess 3:7-8 : 7 For this cause, brothers, in all our trouble and grief we were comforted about you because of your faith; 8 For it is life to us if you keep your faith in the Lord unchanged.
  • Deut 12:2 : 2 You are to give up to the curse all those places where the nations, whom you are driving out, gave worship to their gods, on the high mountains and the hills and under every green tree:
  • Deut 12:18 : 18 But they will be your food before the Lord your God in the place of his selection, where you may make a feast of them, with your son and your daughter, and your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite who is living with you: and you will have joy before the Lord your God in everything to which you put your hand.
  • Deut 16:11 : 11 Then you are to be glad before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter, your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite who is with you, and the man from a strange country, and the child without a father, and the widow, who are living among you, in the place marked out by the Lord your God as a resting-place for his name.
  • 2 Sam 6:21 : 21 And David said to Michal, I was dancing before the Lord, who put me over your father and all his sons, to make me a ruler over the people of the Lord, over his people Israel: and I will go on playing before the Lord;
  • 2 Sam 7:18-20 : 18 Then David the king went in and took his seat before the Lord, and said, Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my family, that you have been my guide till now? 19 And this was only a small thing to you, O Lord God; but your words have even been about the far-off future of your servant's family, O Lord God! 20 What more may David say to you? for you have knowledge of your servant, O Lord God.
  • Neh 9:5 : 5 Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah said, Get up and give praise to the Lord your God for ever and ever. Praise be to your great name which is lifted up high over all blessing and praise.
  • Ps 68:3 : 3 But let the upright be glad; let them have delight before God; let them be full of joy.
  • Ps 71:14-15 : 14 But I will go on ever hoping, and increasing in all your praise. 15 My mouth will make clear your righteousness and your salvation all the day; for they are more than may be measured.
  • Ps 96:12-13 : 12 Let the field be glad, and everything which is in it; yes, let all the trees of the wood be sounding with joy, 13 Before the Lord, for he is come; he is come to be the judge of the earth; the earth will be judged in righteousness, and the peoples with unchanging faith.
  • Ps 98:8-9 : 8 Let the streams make sounds of joy with their hands; let the mountains be glad together, 9 Before the Lord, for he has come as judge of the earth; judging the world in righteousness, and giving true decisions for the peoples.
  • 2 Cor 2:14 : 14 But praise be to God who makes us strong to overcome in Christ, and makes clear through us in every place the value of the knowledge of him.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Phil 1:3-4
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    3I give praise to my God at every memory of you,

    4And in all my prayers for you all, making my request with joy,

  • 1 Thess 1:2-3
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    2We give praise to God at all times for you, keeping you in memory in our prayers;

    3Having ever in mind your work of faith and acts of love and the strength of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

  • 2 Thess 1:3-4
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    3It is right for us to give praise to God at all times for you, brothers, because of the great increase of your faith, and the wealth of your love for one another;

    4So that we ourselves take pride in you in the churches of God for your untroubled mind and your faith in all the troubles and sorrows which you are going through;

  • 1 Thess 3:10-12
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    10Night and day requesting God again and again that we may see your face and make your faith complete.

    11Now may our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus make a way for us to come to you;

    12And the Lord give you increase of love in fullest measure to one another and to all men, even as our love to you;

  • 1 Thess 3:6-8
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    6But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has given us good news of your faith and love, and that you have happy memories of us, desiring greatly to see us, even as we do to see you;

    7For this cause, brothers, in all our trouble and grief we were comforted about you because of your faith;

    8For it is life to us if you keep your faith in the Lord unchanged.

  • 1 Cor 1:4
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    4I give praise to my God for you at all times, because of the grace of God which has been given to you in Christ Jesus;

  • Col 1:3-4
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    3We give praise to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, making prayer for you at all times,

    4After hearing of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have for all the saints,

  • 2 Cor 1:11-12
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    11You at the same time helping together by your prayer for us; so that for what has been given to us through a number of persons, praise may go up to God for us from all of them.

    12For our glory is in this, in the knowledge which we have that our way of life in the world, and most of all in relation to you, has been holy and true in the eyes of God; not in the wisdom of the flesh, but in the grace of God.

  • 2 Cor 9:11-15
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    11Your wealth being increased in everything, with a simple mind, causing praise to God through us.

    12For this work of giving not only takes care of the needs of the saints, but is the cause of much praise to God;

    13For when, through this work of giving, they see what you are, they give glory to God for the way in which you have given yourselves to the good news of Christ, and for the wealth of your giving to them and to all;

    14While their hearts go out to you in love and in prayer for you, because of the great grace of God which is in you.

    15Praise be to God for what he has given, which words have no power to say.

  • 2 Cor 4:15
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    15For we go through all things on account of you, because the greater the number to whom the grace is given, the greater is the praise to the glory of God.

  • 1 Thess 2:19-20
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    19For what is our hope or joy or crown of glory? Are not even you, before our Lord Jesus, at his coming?

    20For you are our glory and our joy.

  • Eph 1:15-16
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    15For this cause I, having had news of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and which you make clear to all the saints,

    16Give praise without end for you, keeping you in mind in my prayers;

  • Phlm 1:4
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    4I give praise to God at all times and make prayer for you,

  • Phlm 1:7
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    7For I had great joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been made strong again through you, brother.

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

  • 2 Cor 7:13
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    13So we have been comforted: and we had the greater joy in our comfort because of the joy of Titus, for his spirit had been made glad by you all.

  • Phil 2:18
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    18And in the same way do you be glad and have a part in my joy.

  • 2 Cor 2:3
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    3And I said this very thing in my letter, for fear that when I came I might have sorrow from those from whom it was right for me to have joy; being certain of this, that my joy is the joy of you all.

  • 2 Cor 2:14
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    14But praise be to God who makes us strong to overcome in Christ, and makes clear through us in every place the value of the knowledge of him.

  • 1 Thess 2:13
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    13And for this cause we still give praise to God, that, when the word came to your ears through us, you took it, not as the word of man, but, as it truly is, the word of God, which has living power in you who have faith.

  • Rom 1:8-9
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    8First of all, I give praise to my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because news of your faith has gone into all the world.

    9For God is my witness, whose servant I am in spirit in the good news of his Son, that you are at all times in my memory and in my prayers,

  • Eph 5:20
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    20Giving praise at all times for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

  • Phil 1:26
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    26So that your pride in me may be increased in Christ Jesus through my being present with you again.

  • 2 Thess 1:11-12
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    11For this reason, you are ever in our prayers, that you may seem to our God such as may have a part in his purpose and that by his power he will make all his good purpose, and the work of faith, complete;

    12So that glory may be given to the name of our Lord Jesus through you, and you may have glory in him, by the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

  • Col 3:17
    74%

    17And whatever you do, in word or in act, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving praise to God the Father through him.

  • 2 Cor 1:24
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    24Not that we have authority over your faith, but we are helpers of your joy: for it is faith which is your support.

  • 1 Thess 5:18
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    18In everything give praise: for this is the purpose of God in Christ Jesus for you.

  • 2 Tim 1:3
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    3I give praise to God, whose servant I have been, with a heart free from sin, from the time of my fathers, because in my prayers at all times the thought of you is with me, night and day

  • Phil 4:10
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    10But I am very glad in the Lord that your care for me has come to life again; though you did in fact take thought for me, but you were not able to give effect to it.

  • 1 Thess 1:9
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    9For they themselves give the news of how we came among you; and how you were turned from images to God, to the worship of a true and living God,

  • 1 Chr 29:13
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    13So now, our God, we give you praise, honouring the glory of your name.

  • Acts 24:3
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    3In all things and in all places we are conscious of our great debt to you, most noble Felix.

  • 2 Cor 7:4
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    4My words to you are without fear, I am full of pride on account of you: I have great comfort and joy in all our troubles.