1 Thessalonians 3:11

Paul prays that God the Father and the Lord Jesus would clear the way for him to come. He commits his travel plans to God.

Cross-references · 24

• Prov 3:5–6Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding;
• Matt 6:32For the Gentiles strive after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
• 2 Th 2:16Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who by grace has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope,
• Luke 12:32Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father is pleased to give you the kingdom.
• 1 Th 3:13so that He may establish your hearts in blamelessness and holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints. Amen.
• Matt 6:26Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns—and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
• Luke 12:30For the Gentiles of the world strive after all these things, and your Father knows that you need them.
• Mark 1:3“A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him.’”
• Matt 6:6But when you pray, go into your inner room, shut your door, and pray to your Father, who is unseen. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
• 1 Jn 3:1Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.
• Matt 6:8–9Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.
• 2 Th 3:5May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and Christ’s perseverance.
• Mal 1:6“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised Your name?’
• Matt 6:18so that your fasting will not be obvious to men, but only to your Father, who is unseen. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
• Gal 1:4who gave Himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
• Isa 63:16Yet You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O LORD, are our Father; our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name.
• Ezra 8:21–23And there by the Ahava Canal I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask Him for a safe journey for us and our children, with all our possessions.
• Matt 6:14For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
• Rom 1:3regarding His Son, who was a descendant of David according to the flesh,
• Col 1:2To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace and peace to you from God our Father.
• 2 Cor 6:18And: “I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”
• Jer 31:9They will come with weeping, and by their supplication I will lead them; I will make them walk beside streams of waters, on a level path where they will not stumble. For I am Israel’s Father, and Ephraim is My firstborn.”
• Matt 6:4so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
• John 20:17“Do not cling to Me,” Jesus said, “for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go and tell My brothers, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, to My God and your God.’”

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