2 Thessalonians 1:3

Bishops' Bible (1568)

We are bound to thanke God alwayes for you brethren, as it is meete, because that your fayth groweth exceedyngly, and the loue of euery one of you toward another aboundeth:

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  • 2 Thess 2:13 : 13 But we are bounde to geue thankes alway to God for you, brethren beloued of the Lorde, because that God hath fro the begynnyng chosen you to saluation in sanctifiyng of the spirite, & in fayth of the trueth:
  • 1 Thess 4:1 : 1 Furthermore we besech you brethren, & exhorte you by the Lorde Iesus, that ye encrease more and more, as ye haue receaued of vs, how ye ought to walke and to please God.
  • 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 Euen ye which haue purified your soules through the spirite in obeying the trueth, with brotherly loue vnfayned, see that ye loue one another with a pure heart feruentlye:
  • 2 Pet 1:5-9 : 5 And herevnto geue all diligence: in your fayth minister vertue, in vertue knowledge, 6 In knowledge temperaunce, in temperaunce pacience, in pacience godlynesse, 7 In godlynesse brotherly kyndnesse, in brotherly kyndnesse loue. 8 For yf these thynges be among you, and be plenteous, they wyll make you that ye neither shalbe idle nor vnfruitefull in the knowledge of our Lorde Iesus Christe. 9 But he that lacketh these thynges, is blynde, and can not see farre of, & hath forgotten that he was purged from his olde sinnes. 10 Wherfore brethren, geue the more diligence for to make your callyng and election sure: For yf ye do such thynges, ye shall neuer fall.
  • Rom 1:8 : 8 First verily I thanke my God through Iesus Christe for you all, that your fayth is publisshed throughout all the worlde.
  • 1 Cor 1:4 : 4 I thanke my God alwayes on your behalfe, for the grace of God whiche is geuen you in Iesus Christe:
  • Eph 5:20 : 20 Geuing thankes alwayes for all thinges vnto God and the father, in ye name of our Lorde Iesus Christe,
  • Phil 1:7 : 7 As it becommeth me to iudge this of you al, because I haue you in my heart, and in my bondes, in the defence and confirmation of the Gospell, you all beyng partakers of my grace.
  • Phil 1:9 : 9 And this I pray, that your loue may abounde yet more and more in knowledge, and in all vnderstandyng:
  • 1 Thess 1:2-3 : 2 We geue thankes to God alwayes for all you, makyng mention of you in our prayers, 3 Without ceassyng, callyng to remembraunce the worke of your fayth, and labour of loue, and patient abidyng in the hope of our Lorde Iesus Christe, in the syght of God and our father.
  • 1 Thess 3:6 : 6 But nowe lately, when Timotheus came from you vnto vs, and brought vs good tydynges of your fayth and loue, and howe that ye haue good remembraunce of vs alwayes, desiryng to see vs, as we also to see you:
  • 1 Thess 3:9 : 9 For what thankes can we recompence to God agayne for you, for all the ioye wherwith we ioy for your sakes before our God?
  • 1 Thess 3:12 : 12 And the Lorde encrease you, & make you abounde in loue one towarde another, and towarde all men, euen as we also towarde you,
  • Job 17:9 : 9 The righteous also wyll kepe his way, and he that hath cleane handes wyll euer be stronger and stronger.
  • Ps 84:7 : 7 They wyl set forward from a stoute courage to a stoute courage: that the God of Gods may be seene of them in Sion.
  • Ps 92:13 : 13 Such as be planted in the house of God: shall florishe in the courtes of our Lorde.
  • Prov 4:18 : 18 The path of the righteous shineth, as the light that is euer bryghter and bryghter vnto the perfect day.
  • Isa 40:29-31 : 29 It is he that geueth strength vnto the weerie, and power vnto the faint. 30 Children are weerie and faint, and the strongest men fall: 31 But vnto them that haue their trust in the Lorde, shall strength be increased: Egles winges shall growe vpon them, when they runne they shall not fall, and when they go they shall not be weerie.
  • Luke 15:32 : 32 It was meete that we shoulde make mery and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alyue agayne: and was lost, and is founde.
  • Luke 17:5 : 5 And the Apostles sayde vnto the Lorde: increase our fayth.
  • John 15:2 : 2 Euery braunche that beareth not fruite in me, he will take away: And euery braunche that beareth fruite wyll he pourge, that it may bryng foorth more fruite.
  • 2 Pet 1:13 : 13 Notwithstandyng I thynke it meete, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stirre you vp by puttyng you in remembraunce:
  • 2 Pet 3:18 : 18 But growe in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lorde and sauiour Iesus Christe, to whom be glorie both nowe and for euer. Amen.
  • 1 Thess 4:9-9 : 9 But as touchyng brotherly loue, ye nede not that I write vnto you: For ye are taught of God to loue one another. 10 Yea and that thyng veryly ye do vnto all ye brethren which are in al Macedonia: But we beseche you brethren, that ye encrease more and more:

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  • 1 Thess 3:6-12
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    6But nowe lately, when Timotheus came from you vnto vs, and brought vs good tydynges of your fayth and loue, and howe that ye haue good remembraunce of vs alwayes, desiryng to see vs, as we also to see you:

    7Therefore brethren we were comforted ouer you, in all our aduersitie and necessitie, because of your fayth.

    8For nowe we lyue, yf ye stande fast in the Lorde.

    9For what thankes can we recompence to God agayne for you, for all the ioye wherwith we ioy for your sakes before our God?

    10Praying nyght and daye exceedyngly to see you personally, and repayre the wantynges of your fayth?

    11Nowe God him selfe, and our father, and our Lord Iesus Christe, guyde our waye vnto you.

    12And the Lorde encrease you, & make you abounde in loue one towarde another, and towarde all men, euen as we also towarde you,

  • 1 Thess 1:2-3
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    2We geue thankes to God alwayes for all you, makyng mention of you in our prayers,

    3Without ceassyng, callyng to remembraunce the worke of your fayth, and labour of loue, and patient abidyng in the hope of our Lorde Iesus Christe, in the syght of God and our father.

  • 2 Thess 1:4
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    4So that we our selues reioyce in you in the Churches of God, ouer your pacience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye suffer,

  • 1 Cor 1:4-5
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    4I thanke my God alwayes on your behalfe, for the grace of God whiche is geuen you in Iesus Christe:

    5That in all thynges ye are made riche in hym, in all vtteraunce, & in all knowledge:

  • Col 1:3-4
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    3We geue thankes to God and father of our Lorde Iesus Christe, alwayes for you, praying:

    4Sence we hearde of your fayth in Christe Iesus, and of the loue which is to all saintes,

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    3I thanke my God, with all remembraunce of you,

    4( Alwayes in all my prayer for all you, makyng prayer with gladnesse,)

    5For your felowship in the Gospell, fro the first day vntyll nowe.

  • Phlm 1:4-8
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    4I thanke my God, makyng mention alwayes of thee in my prayers,

    5Hearyng of thy loue and fayth, which thou hast towarde the Lorde Iesus, and towarde all saintes:

    6That the felowshippe of thy fayth may be effectuall in the knowledge of euery good worke which is in you, towarde Christe Iesus.

    7For we haue great ioy & consolation in thy loue, because the bowels of the saintes are refresshed by thee, brother.

    8Wherfore, though I myght be much bolde in Christe, to inioyne thee that which is conuenient:

  • Eph 1:15-16
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    15Wherfore I also after that I hearde of the fayth which ye haue in the Lorde Iesus, and loue vnto all the saintes,

    16Ceasse not to geue thankes for you, makyng mention of you in my prayers:

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    10Yea and that thyng veryly ye do vnto all ye brethren which are in al Macedonia: But we beseche you brethren, that ye encrease more and more:

  • 2 Thess 1:11-12
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    11Wherfore also we praye alwayes for you, that our God woulde make you worthy of the callyng, & fulfyll all good pleasure of goodnesse in the worke of fayth in power:

    12That the name of our Lorde Iesus Christe may be glorified in you, and ye in hym, accordyng to the grace of our God, and the Lorde Iesus Christe.

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    7Nowe therefore as ye are riche in all thinges, in fayth, in worde, in knowledge, in all feruentnesse, and in loue, which ye haue to vs: euen so, see that ye be plenteous in this grace also.

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    11By the helpe of your prayer for vs, that by ye meanes of many persons, thankes may geuen of many on our behalfe, for the grace geuen vnto vs.

    12For our reioycyng is this, the testimonie of our conscience, that in simplicitie & godly purenesse, and not in fleshely wisdome, but by the grace of God, we haue had our conuersatio in the worlde, and most of all to you wardes.

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    11That in all thynges ye may be made riche into all singlenesse, which causeth through vs, that thankes are geuen vnto God.

  • Rom 1:8
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    8First verily I thanke my God through Iesus Christe for you all, that your fayth is publisshed throughout all the worlde.

  • 1 Thess 1:7-8
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    7So that ye were an ensample to all that beleue in Macedonia and Achaia.

    8For from you, sounded out the worde of the Lorde, not only in Macedonia & Achaia: but also in euery place your faith to Godwarde is spread abroade, so that we neede not to speake any thyng.

  • 2 Cor 4:15
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    15For all thynges do for your sakes, that the plenteous grace, by thankes geuyng of many, may redounde to the prayse of God.

  • 2 Thess 2:13
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    13But we are bounde to geue thankes alway to God for you, brethren beloued of the Lorde, because that God hath fro the begynnyng chosen you to saluation in sanctifiyng of the spirite, & in fayth of the trueth:

  • Col 2:7
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    7Rooted and built in hym, & stablished in the fayth, as ye haue ben taught, aboundyng therin with thankes geuing.

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    2Grace vnto you and peace from God our father, & the Lorde Iesus Christe.

  • 1 Thess 2:13
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    13For this cause thanke we God also without ceassyng, because ye receauyng the worde which ye hearde of vs concernyng God, ye receaued it not as the worde of man, (but as it is in deede) the worde of God, which effectuously worketh also in you that beleue.

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    7In godlynesse brotherly kyndnesse, in brotherly kyndnesse loue.

  • Phil 1:7
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    7As it becommeth me to iudge this of you al, because I haue you in my heart, and in my bondes, in the defence and confirmation of the Gospell, you all beyng partakers of my grace.

  • Phil 1:9
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    9And this I pray, that your loue may abounde yet more and more in knowledge, and in all vnderstandyng:

  • 2 Cor 9:14
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    14And by their prayers for you, which long after you, for the aboundaunt grace of God in you.

  • 3 John 1:5
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    5Beloued, thou doest faythfully whatsoeuer thou doest to the brethren, and to straungers,

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    1Furthermore we besech you brethren, & exhorte you by the Lorde Iesus, that ye encrease more and more, as ye haue receaued of vs, how ye ought to walke and to please God.

  • Col 1:10
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    10That ye myght walke worthie of the Lorde in all pleasyng, beyng fruitefull in all good workes, and encreasyng in the knowledge of God,

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    8Who also declared vnto vs your loue in the spirite.

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    20Geuing thankes alwayes for all thinges vnto God and the father, in ye name of our Lorde Iesus Christe,

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    15And his inwarde affection is more aboundaunt towarde you, when he remembred the obedience of you all, howe with feare and tremblyng ye receaued hym.

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    16Thankes be vnto God, which put the same good mynde for you in the heart of Titus,