1 Thessalonians 5:21

Believers are to test everything and firmly hold on to what proves good and true.

Cross-references · 37

• 1 Jn 4:1Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
• Rom 12:2Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
• Eph 5:10proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.
• Luke 12:57Why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right?
• Acts 17:11Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
• Phil 4:8Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.
• Rom 12:9Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.
• Rev 3:3Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.
• 1 Cor 2:14–15Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
• Phil 3:16Nevertheless, to the extent that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule. Let us be of the same mind.
• 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.
• Matt 7:15–20“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.
• John 15:4Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.
• Acts 14:22confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.
• Phil 1:10so that you may approve the things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ;
• Rev 3:11I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.
• Isa 8:20Turn to the law and to the testimony! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
• Prov 3:1My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:
• 1 Cor 14:28–29But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in the assembly, and let him speak to himself, and to God.
• Prov 3:21–24My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:
• John 8:31Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.
• 2 Th 2:15So then, brothers, stand firm, and hold the traditions which you were taught by us, whether by word, or by letter.
• Mark 7:14–15He called all the multitude to himself, and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand.
• Deut 11:6–9and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben; how the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the middle of all Israel;
• 2 Tim 1:15This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me; of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.
• 2 Tim 4:14Alexander, the coppersmith, did much evil to me. The Lord will repay him according to his deeds,
• Heb 10:23let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.
• Rev 2:25Nevertheless, hold that which you have firmly until I come.
• Rev 2:2“I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.
• Acts 11:23who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.
• Prov 6:21–23Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.
• Prov 23:23Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.
• 1 Cor 2:11For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God’s Spirit.
• Song 3:4I had scarcely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, into the room of her who conceived me.
• Deut 32:46–47He said to them, “Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you today, which you shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.
• Prov 4:13Take firm hold of instruction. Don’t let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.
• 2 Tim 3:6For some of these are people who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

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