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1 Thessalonians 5:24

Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.
1 Thessalonians 5:24 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it.
  • BSB The One who calls you is faithful, and He will do it.
  • NKJV He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.
  • NASB Faithful is He who calls you, and He also will do it.
  • NLT God will make this happen, for he who calls you is faithful.

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The God who calls believers is faithful and will certainly accomplish the sanctification just prayed for.

Overview

Paul grounds his confidence not in the believers' strength but in God's character: the one who effectually called them will surely complete His work in them. This is the assurance of perseverance, that God finishes what He begins (Philippians 1:6). The believer's hope of being kept blameless rests on divine faithfulness secured in Christ.

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  • 2 Th 3:3But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.
  • Num 23:19God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
  • Deut 7:9Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
  • 1 Cor 1:9God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
  • 1 Pet 5:10But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
  • 2 Tim 2:13If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.
  • Isa 25:1O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
  • Lam 3:23They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
  • John 3:33He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true.
  • Ps 138:2I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.
  • Rev 17:14These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
  • 2 Pet 1:3According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
  • Ps 86:15But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, long suffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.
  • 1 Cor 10:13There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
  • 1 Th 2:12That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.
  • Titus 1:2In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
  • 2 Tim 1:9Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
  • Ps 36:5Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds.
  • Rom 8:30Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
  • Matt 24:35Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
  • Gal 1:15But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace,
  • Isa 14:24–26The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:
  • Ps 89:2For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.
  • Mic 7:20Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.
  • John 1:17For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
  • Ps 92:2To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night,
  • Isa 37:32For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.
  • 2 Th 2:14Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • Rom 9:24Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
  • Ps 40:10I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.
  • Heb 6:17–18Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
  • Ps 146:6Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever:
  • Ps 100:5For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.
  • Isa 9:7Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
  • 2 Kgs 19:31For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.

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