1 Thessalonians 2:12

His fatherly aim was that they live lives worthy of God, who calls them into his kingdom and glory. Christian conduct should match the high calling believers have received.

Cross-references · 23

• Eph 4:1I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
• 1 Jn 2:6He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
• 1 Jn 1:6–7If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
• 2 Th 2:13–14But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
• 1 Th 4:12That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
• 1 Pet 5:10But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
• 2 Th 1:11–12Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:
• 1 Th 5:24Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.
• Eph 5:8For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
• Eph 5:2And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
• Col 1:10That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
• 1 Pet 1:15–16But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
• 1 Th 4:1Furthermore 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.
• Col 2:6As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
• Gal 5:16This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
• Rom 9:23–24And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
• 1 Cor 1:9God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
• 1 Pet 2:9But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
• Phil 1:27Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
• 1 Pet 3:9Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.
• 2 Tim 1:9Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
• Rom 8:28And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
• Rom 8:30Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

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