1 Thessalonians 2:1

World English Bible (2000)

For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn't in vain,

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  • Hab 2:13 : 13 Behold, isn't it of Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?
  • 2 Thess 1:10 : 10 when he comes to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired among all those who have believed (because our testimony to you was believed) in that day.
  • 2 Thess 3:1 : 1 Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified, even as also with you;
  • Ps 127:1 : 1 Unless Yahweh builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.
  • Isa 49:4 : 4 But I said, "I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely the justice [due] to me is with Yahweh, and my reward with my God."
  • Isa 65:23 : 23 They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for calamity; for they are the seed of the blessed of Yahweh, and their offspring with them.
  • 1 Cor 15:2 : 2 by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you--unless you believed in vain.
  • 1 Cor 15:10 : 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was bestowed on me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
  • 1 Cor 15:58 : 58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord's work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
  • 2 Cor 6:1 : 1 Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,
  • Gal 2:2 : 2 I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.
  • Gal 4:11 : 11 I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.
  • Phil 2:16 : 16 holding up the word of life; that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn't run in vain nor labor in vain.
  • 1 Thess 1:3-9 : 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. 4 We know, brothers loved by God, that you are chosen, 5 and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake. 6 You became imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit, 7 so that you became an example to all who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia. 8 For from you the word of the Lord has been declared, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone out; so that we need not to say anything. 9 For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you; and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God, 10 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead--Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.
  • 1 Thess 2:13 : 13 For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.
  • 1 Thess 3:5 : 5 For this cause I also, when I couldn't stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.
  • Job 39:16 : 16 She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear,
  • Ps 73:13 : 13 Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart, and washed my hands in innocence,

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