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 in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,
• 1 Jn 2:6he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.
• 1 Jn 1:6–7If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don’t tell the truth.
• 2 Th 2:13–14But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth;
• 1 Th 4:12that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.
• 1 Pet 5:10But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
• 2 Th 1:11–12To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith, with power;
• 1 Th 5:24He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it.
• Eph 5:8For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
• Eph 5:2Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
• Col 1:10that 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;
• 1 Pet 1:15–16but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;
• 1 Th 4:1Finally 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.
• Col 2:6As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,
• Gal 5:16But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.
• Rom 9:23–24and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,
• 1 Cor 1:9God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.
• 1 Pet 2:9But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
• Phil 1:27Only 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;
• 1 Pet 3:9not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing; knowing that to this were you called, that you may inherit a blessing.
• 2 Tim 1:9who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,
• Rom 8:28We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
• Rom 8:30Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.

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