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 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;
• 2 Th 1:3We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you towards one another abounds;
• 2 Pet 3:18But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.
• Heb 13:16But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
• 2 Pet 1:5–10Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;
• Phil 1:9This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;
• 1 Th 4:10–12for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more;
• Rom 12:1–2Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual 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 also do toward you,
• Phil 3:14I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
• 1 Jn 3:22and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.
• 2 Cor 13:11Finally, brothers, rejoice. Be perfected, be comforted, be of the same mind, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.
• Eph 4:1I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,
• Job 17:9Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.
• 1 Cor 15:58Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
• 2 Th 3:1Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified, even as also with you;
• Col 2:6As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,
• Ps 92:14They will still produce fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,
• 1 Th 2:11–12As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,
• 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;
• 2 Th 2:1Now, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together to him, we ask you
• John 15:2Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
• Phlm 1:9–10yet for love’s sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.
• Rom 8:8Those who are in the flesh can’t please God.
• Prov 4:18But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, that shines more and more until the perfect day.
• 2 Th 3:10–12For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone will not work, don’t let him eat.”
• 2 Cor 5:9Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.
• 1 Th 4:2For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
• Acts 20:27for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.
• 1 Cor 15:1Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,
• Eph 5:17Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
• 2 Cor 10:1Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ; I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.
• 1 Cor 11:23For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread.
• 1 Tim 6:13–14I command you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession,
• 2 Cor 6:1Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,
• Heb 11:6Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.
• Eph 4:20But you did not learn Christ that way;
• 1 Tim 5:21I command you in the sight of God, and Christ Jesus, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.
• 2 Tim 4:1I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:
• Heb 13:22But I exhort you, brothers, endure the word of exhortation; for I have written to you in few words.

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