Verse 9

Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.

Referenced Verses

  • Heb 4:11 : 11 ¶ Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
  • 2 Pet 3:14 : 14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
  • Heb 12:28 : 28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
  • 2 Pet 1:10-11 : 10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: 11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
  • Gen 4:7 : 7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee [shall be] his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
  • Isa 56:7 : 7 Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices [shall be] accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.
  • John 6:27 : 27 ‹Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.›
  • Acts 10:35 : 35 But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
  • Rom 14:8 : 8 For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
  • Rom 14:18 : 18 For he that in these things serveth Christ [is] acceptable to God, and approved of men.
  • Rom 15:20 : 20 Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation:
  • 1 Cor 9:26-27 : 26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: 27 But I keep under my body, and bring [it] into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
  • 1 Cor 15:58 : 58 ¶ Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
  • 2 Cor 5:6 : 6 Therefore [we are] always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
  • 2 Cor 5:8 : 8 We are confident, [I say], and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
  • Eph 1:6 : 6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
  • Col 1:10 : 10 That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
  • Col 1:29 : 29 Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
  • 1 Thess 4:1 : 1 ¶ Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort [you] by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, [so] ye would abound more and more.
  • 1 Thess 4:11 : 11 And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
  • 1 Tim 4:10 : 10 For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.