Verse 9

For how can we thank God enough for you, for all the joy we feel because of you before our God?

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Cor 9:15 : 15 Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!
  • 1 Thess 1:2-3 : 2 Thanksgiving for Response to the Gospel We thank God always for all of you as we mention you constantly in our prayers, 3 because we recall in the presence of our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and endurance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • 1 Thess 2:19 : 19 For who is our hope or joy or crown to boast of before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not of course you?
  • 1 Thess 3:7-8 : 7 So in all our distress and affliction, we were reassured about you, brothers and sisters, through your faith. 8 For now we are alive again, if you stand firm in the Lord.
  • Deut 12:2 : 2 You must by all means destroy all the places where the nations you are about to dispossess worship their gods– on the high mountains and hills and under every leafy tree.
  • Deut 12:18 : 18 Only in the presence of the LORD your God may you eat these, in the place he chooses. This applies to you, your son, your daughter, your male and female servants, and the Levites in your villages. In that place you will rejoice before the LORD your God in all the output of your labor.
  • Deut 16:11 : 11 You shall rejoice before him– you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites in your villages, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows among you– in the place where the LORD chooses to locate his name.
  • 2 Sam 6:21 : 21 David replied to Michal,“It was before the LORD! I was celebrating before the LORD, who chose me over your father and his entire family and appointed me as leader over the LORD’s people Israel.
  • 2 Sam 7:18-20 : 18 David Offers a Prayer to God King David went in, sat before the LORD, and said,“Who am I, O Sovereign LORD, and what is my family, that you should have brought me to this point? 19 And you didn’t stop there, O LORD God! You have also spoken about the future of your servant’s family. Is this your usual way of dealing with men, O Sovereign LORD? 20 What more can David say to you? You have given your servant special recognition, O Sovereign LORD!
  • Neh 9:5 : 5 The Levites– Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah– said,“Stand up and bless the LORD your God!”“May you be blessed, O LORD our God, from age to age. May your glorious name be blessed; may it be lifted up above all blessing and praise.
  • Ps 68:3 : 3 But the godly are happy; they rejoice before God and are overcome with joy.
  • Ps 71:14-15 : 14 As for me, I will wait continually, and will continue to praise you. 15 I will tell about your justice, and all day long proclaim your salvation, though I cannot fathom its full extent.
  • Ps 96:12-13 : 12 Let the fields and everything in them celebrate! Then let the trees of the forest shout with joy 13 before the LORD, for he comes! For he comes to judge the earth! He judges the world fairly, and the nations in accordance with his justice.
  • Ps 98:8-9 : 8 Let the rivers clap their hands! Let the mountains sing in unison 9 before the LORD! For he comes to judge the earth! He judges the world fairly, and the nations in a just manner.
  • 2 Cor 2:14 : 14 Apostolic Ministry But thanks be to God who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and who makes known through us the fragrance that consists of the knowledge of him in every place.