2 Thessalonians 1:3

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

We ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because increase greatly doth your faith, and abound doth the love of each one of you all, to one another;

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  • 2 Thess 2:13 : 13 And we -- we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved by the Lord, that God did choose you from the beginning to salvation, in sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth,
  • 1 Thess 4:1 : 1 As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more,
  • 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly,
  • 2 Pet 1:5-9 : 5 And this same also -- all diligence having brought in besides, superadd in your faith the worthiness, and in the worthiness the knowledge, 6 and in the knowledge the temperance, and in the temperance the endurance, and in the endurance the piety, 7 and in the piety the brotherly kindness, and in the brotherly kindness the love; 8 for these things being to you and abounding, do make `you' neither inert nor unfruitful in regard to the acknowledging of our Lord Jesus Christ, 9 for he with whom these things are not present is blind, dim-sighted, having become forgetful of the cleansing of his old sins; 10 wherefore, the rather, brethren, be diligent to make stedfast your calling and choice, for these things doing, ye may never stumble,
  • Rom 1:8 : 8 first, indeed, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is proclaimed in the whole world;
  • 1 Cor 1:4 : 4 I give thanks to my God always concerning you for the grace of God that was given to you in Christ Jesus,
  • Eph 5:20 : 20 giving thanks always for all things, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the God and Father;
  • Phil 1:7 : 7 according as it is righteous for me to think this in behalf of you all, because of my having you in the heart, both in my bonds, and `in' the defence and confirmation of the good news, all of you being fellow-partakers with me of grace.
  • Phil 1:9 : 9 and this I pray, that your love yet more and more may abound in full knowledge, and all judgment,
  • 1 Thess 1:2-3 : 2 We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers, 3 unceasingly remembering of you the work of the faith, and the labour of the love, and the endurance of the hope, of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the presence of our God and Father,
  • 1 Thess 3:6 : 6 And now Timotheus having come unto us from you, and having declared good news to us of your faith and love, and that ye have a good remembrance of us always, desiring much to see us, as we also `to see' you,
  • 1 Thess 3:9 : 9 for what thanks are we able to recompense to God for you, for all the joy with which we do joy because of you in the presence of our God?
  • 1 Thess 3:12 : 12 and you the Lord cause to increase and to abound in the love to one another, and to all, even as we also to you,
  • Job 17:9 : 9 And the righteous layeth hold `on' his way, And the clean of hands addeth strength, And -- dumb are they all.
  • Ps 84:7 : 7 They go from strength unto strength, He appeareth unto God in Zion.
  • Ps 92:13 : 13 Those planted in the house of Jehovah, In the courts of our God do flourish.
  • Prov 4:18 : 18 And the path of the righteous `is' as a shining light, Going and brightening till the day is established,
  • Isa 40:29-31 : 29 He is giving power to the weary, And to those not strong He increaseth might. 30 Even youths are wearied and fatigued, And young men utterly stumble, 31 But those expecting Jehovah pass `to' power, They raise up the pinion as eagles, They run and are not fatigued, They go on and do not faint!
  • Luke 15:32 : 32 but to be merry, and to be glad, it was needful, because this thy brother was dead, and did live again, he was lost, and was found.'
  • Luke 17:5 : 5 And the apostles said to the Lord, `Add to us faith;'
  • John 15:2 : 2 every branch in me not bearing fruit, He doth take it away, and every one bearing fruit, He doth cleanse by pruning it, that it may bear more fruit;
  • 2 Pet 1:13 : 13 and I think right, so long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up in reminding `you',
  • 2 Pet 3:18 : 18 and increase ye in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; to him `is' the glory both now, and to the day of the age! Amen.
  • 1 Thess 4:9-9 : 9 And concerning the brotherly love, ye have no need of `my' writing to you, for ye yourselves are God-taught to love one another, 10 for ye do it also to all the brethren who `are' in all Macedonia; and we call upon you, brethren, to abound still more,

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    6And now Timotheus having come unto us from you, and having declared good news to us of your faith and love, and that ye have a good remembrance of us always, desiring much to see us, as we also `to see' you,

    7because of this we were comforted, brethren, over you, in all our tribulation and necessity, through your faith,

    8because now we live, if ye may stand fast in the Lord;

    9for what thanks are we able to recompense to God for you, for all the joy with which we do joy because of you in the presence of our God?

    10night and day exceedingly beseeching, that we might see your face, and perfect the things lacking in your faith.

    11And our God and Father Himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you,

    12and you the Lord cause to increase and to abound in the love to one another, and to all, even as we also to you,

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    2We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers,

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    4so that we ourselves do glory in you in the assemblies of God, for your endurance and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye bear;

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    3We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, always praying for you,

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    3I give thanks to my God upon all the remembrance of you,

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    4I give thanks to my God, always making mention of thee in my prayers,

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    7for we have much joy and comfort in thy love, because the bowels of the saints have been refreshed through thee, brother.

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    15Because of this I also, having heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and the love to all the saints,

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    10for ye do it also to all the brethren who `are' in all Macedonia; and we call upon you, brethren, to abound still more,

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    11for which also we do pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of the calling, and may fulfil all the good pleasure of goodness, and the work of the faith in power,

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    7but even as in every thing ye do abound, in faith, and word, and knowledge, and all diligence, and in your love to us, that also in this grace ye may abound;

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    11ye working together also for us by your supplication, that the gift through many persons to us, through many may be thankfully acknowledged for us.

    12For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we did conduct ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;

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    7so that ye became patterns to all those believing in Macedonia and Achaia,

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    7being rooted and built up in him, and confirmed in the faith, as ye were taught -- abounding in it in thanksgiving.

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    2Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!

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    13Because of this also, we -- we do give thanks to God continually, that, having received the word of hearing from us of God, ye accepted, not the word of man, but as it is truly, the word of God, who also doth work in you who believe;

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    9and this I pray, that your love yet more and more may abound in full knowledge, and all judgment,

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    10to your walking worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, in every good work being fruitful, and increasing to the knowledge of God,

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    20giving thanks always for all things, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the God and Father;

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    16And thanks to God, who is putting the same diligence for you in the heart of Titus,