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1 Thessalonians 5:24

God will make this happen, for he who calls you is faithful.
1 Thessalonians 5:24 · New Living Translation
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  • WEB He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it.
  • KJV Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will 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.

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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 will establish you, and guard you from the evil one.
  • Num 23:19God is not a man, that he should lie, nor the son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?
  • Deut 7:9Know therefore that Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,
  • 1 Cor 1:9God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.
  • 1 Pet 5:10But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
  • 2 Tim 2:13If we are faithless, he remains faithful. For he can’t deny himself.”
  • Isa 25:1Yahweh, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth.
  • Lam 3:23They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
  • John 3:33He who has received his witness has set his seal to this, that God is true.
  • Ps 138:2I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth; for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.
  • Rev 17:14These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings, and those who are with him are called chosen and faithful.”
  • 2 Pet 1:3seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue;
  • Ps 86:15But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.
  • 1 Cor 10:13No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
  • 1 Th 2:12to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.
  • Titus 1:2in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;
  • 2 Tim 1:9who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,
  • Ps 36:5Your loving kindness, Yahweh, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
  • Rom 8:30Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.
  • Matt 24:35Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
  • Gal 1:15But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me through his grace,
  • Isa 14:24–26Yahweh of Armies has sworn, saying, “Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:
  • Ps 89:2I indeed declare, “Love stands firm forever. You established the heavens. Your faithfulness is in them.”
  • Mic 7:20You will give truth to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
  • John 1:17For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.
  • Ps 92:2to proclaim your loving kindness in the morning, and your faithfulness every night,
  • Isa 37:32For out of Jerusalem a remnant will go out, and survivors will escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.’
  • 2 Th 2:14to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • Rom 9:24us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?
  • Ps 40:10I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.
  • Heb 6:17–18In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;
  • Ps 146:6who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps truth forever;
  • Ps 100:5For Yahweh is good. His loving kindness endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations.
  • Isa 9:7Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on David’s throne, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time on, even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.
  • 2 Kgs 19:31For out of Jerusalem a remnant will go out, and out of Mount Zion those who shall escape. Yahweh’s zeal will perform this.

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