1 Thessalonians 4:1

World English Bible (2000)

Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

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  • Col 1:10 : 10 that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
  • 2 Thess 1:3 : 3 We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you towards one another abounds;
  • Phil 1:9 : 9 This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;
  • Eph 4:1 : 1 I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,
  • Col 2:6 : 6 As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,
  • 2 Thess 2:1 : 1 Now, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together to him, we ask you
  • Heb 13:16 : 16 But don't forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
  • 2 Pet 3:18 : 18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.
  • 1 John 3:22 : 22 and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.
  • Heb 13:22 : 22 But I exhort you, brothers, endure the word of exhortation, for I have written to you in few words.
  • 2 Pet 1:5-9 : 5 Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge; 6 and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control patience; and in patience godliness; 7 and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love. 8 For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful to the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins. 10 Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.
  • Phlm 1:9-9 : 9 yet for love's sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ. 10 I beg you for my child, whom I have become the father of in my chains, Onesimus,
  • Heb 11:6 : 6 Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.
  • 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;
  • 2 Thess 3:10-12 : 10 For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: "If anyone will not work, neither let him eat." 11 For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don't work at all, but are busybodies. 12 Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
  • 1 Tim 5:21 : 21 I command you in the sight of God, and Christ Jesus, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.
  • 1 Tim 6:13-14 : 13 I command you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession, 14 that you keep the commandment without spot, blameless, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ;
  • 1 Thess 2:11-12 : 11 As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children, 12 to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.
  • 1 Thess 3:12 : 12 and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,
  • 1 Thess 4:2 : 2 For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
  • 1 Thess 4:10-12 : 10 for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more; 11 and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you; 12 that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.
  • Eph 4:20 : 20 But you did not learn Christ that way;
  • Eph 5:17 : 17 Therefore don't be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
  • Phil 1:27 : 27 Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;
  • Phil 3:14 : 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
  • Job 17:9 : 9 Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.
  • Ps 92:14 : 14 They will still bring forth fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,
  • Prov 4:18 : 18 But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, that shines more and more until the perfect day.
  • John 15:2 : 2 Every branch in me that doesn't bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
  • Acts 20:27 : 27 for I didn't shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.
  • Rom 8:8 : 8 Those who are in the flesh can't please God.
  • Rom 12:1-2 : 1 Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. 2 Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
  • 1 Cor 11:23 : 23 For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread.
  • 1 Cor 15:1 : 1 Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,
  • 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 5:9 : 9 Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.
  • 2 Cor 6:1 : 1 Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,
  • 2 Cor 10:1 : 1 Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ; I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.
  • 2 Cor 13:11 : 11 Finally, brothers, rejoice. Be perfected, be comforted, be of the same mind, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.
  • 2 Tim 4:1 : 1 I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:

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