1 Thessalonians 4:1

Paul urges them to keep living to please God and to grow in it more and more. Christian maturity means abounding ever further in obedience.

Cross-references · 40

• 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;
• 2 Th 1:3We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;
• 2 Pet 3:18But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
• Heb 13:16But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
• 2 Pet 1:5–10And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
• Phil 1:9And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
• 1 Th 4:10–12And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;
• Rom 12:1–2I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
• 1 Th 3:12And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
• Phil 3:14I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
• 1 Jn 3:22And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
• 2 Cor 13:11Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
• Eph 4:1I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
• Job 17:9The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
• 1 Cor 15:58Therefore, 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 Th 3:1Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you:
• Col 2:6As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
• Ps 92:14They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;
• 1 Th 2:11–12As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,
• 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;
• 2 Th 2:1Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
• John 15:2Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
• Phlm 1:9–10Yet for love’s sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.
• Rom 8:8So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
• Prov 4:18But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
• 2 Th 3:10–12For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
• 2 Cor 5:9Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
• 1 Th 4:2For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
• Acts 20:27For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
• 1 Cor 15:1Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
• Eph 5:17Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
• 2 Cor 10:1Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:
• 1 Cor 11:23For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:
• 1 Tim 6:13–14I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession;
• 2 Cor 6:1We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
• Heb 11:6But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
• Eph 4:20But ye have not so learned Christ;
• 1 Tim 5:21I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.
• 2 Tim 4:1I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
• Heb 13:22And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter unto you in few words.

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