2 Thessalonians 1:11

Paul prays constantly that God would make the Thessalonians worthy of their calling and powerfully complete every good desire and work of faith in them. Growth in godliness is God's gift, sought in prayer.

Cross-references · 39

• Phil 2:13For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
• Col 1:9–13For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
• 1 Th 1:3Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
• Titus 3:4–7But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,
• 1 Th 3:9–13For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;
• 2 Th 2:14Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• 2 Th 1:5Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:
• Phil 1:9–11And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
• Heb 12:2Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
• 1 Th 2:12–13That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.
• 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.
• Luke 12:32Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
• Eph 1:5Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
• 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.
• Phil 1:6Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
• Ps 138:8The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.
• Eph 1:9Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
• Ps 51:18Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
• Isa 25:9And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
• Rev 5:10And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
• Isa 66:9Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God.
• Hos 6:3Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
• Zech 4:7Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.
• Mark 4:28For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.
• Eph 1:16Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;
• Eph 1:19–20And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
• Eph 3:14–21For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
• Phil 3:14I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
• Heb 3:1Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;
• Ps 48:14For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.
• Ps 68:20He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto GOD the Lord belong the issues from death.
• Rom 9:23–24And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
• Rev 3:4Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.
• Prov 4:18But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
• John 6:27–29Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
• Rom 1:9For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;
• 1 Cor 1:8Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Dan 3:17If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.
• Isa 55:7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

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