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 who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.
• Col 1:9–13For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
• 1 Th 1:3remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.
• Titus 3:4–7But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared,
• 1 Th 3:9–13For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God;
• 2 Th 2:14to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• 2 Th 1:5This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of God’s Kingdom, for which you also suffer.
• Phil 1:9–11This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;
• Heb 12:2looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
• 1 Th 2:12–13to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.
• Rom 8:30Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.
• Luke 12:32Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.
• Eph 1:5having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,
• 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.
• Phil 1:6being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.
• Ps 138:8Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me; your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.
• Eph 1:9making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him
• Ps 51:18Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem.
• Isa 25:9It shall be said in that day, “Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is Yahweh! We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!”
• Rev 5:10and made us kings and priests to our God, and we will reign on the earth.”
• Isa 66:9Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to be delivered?” says Yahweh. “Shall I who cause to give birth shut the womb?” says your God.
• Hos 6:3Let us acknowledge Yahweh. Let us press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”
• Zech 4:7Who are you, great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you are a plain; and he will bring out the capstone with shouts of ‘Grace, grace, to it!’”
• Mark 4:28For the earth bears fruit: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.
• Eph 1:16don’t cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers,
• Eph 1:19–20and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might
• Eph 3:14–21For this cause, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
• Phil 3:14I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
• Heb 3:1Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus;
• Ps 48:14For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide even to death.
• Ps 68:20God is to us a God of deliverance. To Yahweh, the Lord, belongs escape from death.
• Rom 9:23–24and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,
• Rev 3:4Nevertheless you have a few names in Sardis that did not defile their garments. They will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.
• Prov 4:18But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, that shines more and more until the perfect day.
• John 6:27–29Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”
• Rom 1:9For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,
• 1 Cor 1:8who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Dan 3:17If it happens, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.
• Isa 55:7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will freely pardon.

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