2 Thessalonians 3:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And we have faith in the Lord about you, that you are doing and will do the things about which we give you orders.

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  • 2 Cor 2:3 : 3 And 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.
  • 1 Thess 4:10 : 10 And, truly, you are lovers of all the brothers in Macedonia; but it is our desire that your love may be increased still more;
  • 2 Thess 3:6 : 6 Now we give you orders, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from all those whose behaviour is not well ordered and in harmony with the teaching which they had from us.
  • 2 Thess 3:12 : 12 Now to such we give orders and make request in the Lord Jesus, that, working quietly, they get their living.
  • Phlm 1:21 : 21 Being certain that you will do my desire, I am writing to you, in the knowledge that you will do even more than I say.
  • Phil 2:12 : 12 So then, my loved ones, as you have at all times done what I say, not only when I am present, but now much more when I am not with you, give yourselves to working out your salvation with fear in your hearts;
  • 1 Thess 4:1-2 : 1 And last of all, the prayer which we make to you from our heart and in the name of the Lord Jesus, is this: that as we made clear to you what sort of behaviour is pleasing to God, as in fact you are doing now, so you will go on in these ways, but more and more. 2 Because you have in mind the orders we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
  • 2 Cor 2:9 : 9 And for the same reason I sent you a letter so that I might be certain of your desire to do my orders in all things.
  • 2 Cor 7:15-16 : 15 And his love to you is the more increased by his memory of you all, how you gave way to his authority, and how you took him to your hearts with fear and honour. 16 It gives me great joy to see you answering to my good opinion of you in every way.
  • 2 Cor 8:22 : 22 And we have sent with them our brother, whose ready spirit has been made clear to us at times and in ways without number, but it is now all the more so because of the certain faith which he has in you.
  • Gal 5:10 : 10 I am certain about you in the Lord, that you will be of no other mind; but he who is troubling you will have his punishment, whoever he is.
  • Phil 1:6 : 6 For I am certain of this very thing, that he by whom the good work was started in you will make it complete till the day of Jesus Christ:
  • Matt 28:20 : 20 Teaching them to keep all the rules which I have given you: and see, I am ever with you, even to the end of the world.
  • Rom 2:7 : 7 To those who go on with good works in the hope of glory and honour and salvation from death, he will give eternal life:
  • Rom 15:14 : 14 And I myself am certain of you, brothers, that you are full of what is good, complete in all knowledge, able to give direction to one another.
  • Rom 15:18 : 18 And I will keep myself from talking of anything but those things which Christ has done by me to put the Gentiles under his rule in word and in act,
  • 1 Cor 7:19 : 19 Circumcision is nothing, and its opposite is nothing, but only doing the orders of God is of value.
  • 1 Cor 14:37 : 37 If any man seems to himself to be a prophet or to have the Spirit, let him take note of the things which I am writing to you, as being the word of the Lord.

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