2 Thessalonians 1:3

Paul feels obligated to thank God continually for the Thessalonians because their faith is flourishing and their mutual love is increasing. Their growth is evidence of God's work in them.

Cross-references · 24

• 2 Pet 3:18But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.
• 2 Pet 1:5–10Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;
• Isa 40:29–31He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.
• Prov 4:18But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, that shines more and more until the perfect day.
• Phil 1:9This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;
• 1 Th 4:1Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.
• 1 Th 4:9–10But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,
• 2 Th 2:13But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth;
• 1 Th 3:12and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,
• 1 Th 1:2–3We always give thanks to God for all of you, mentioning you in our prayers,
• John 15:2Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
• Phil 1:7It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because, both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.
• Rom 1:8First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.
• Luke 17:5The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”
• 2 Pet 1:13I think it right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you;
• 1 Pet 1:22Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:
• Ps 92:13They are planted in Yahweh’s house. They will flourish in our God’s courts.
• 1 Th 3:6But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you;
• Luke 15:32But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’”
• Ps 84:7They go from strength to strength. Everyone of them appears before God in Zion.
• 1 Th 3:9For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God;
• Eph 5:20giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;
• 1 Cor 1:4I always thank my God concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus;
• Job 17:9Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.

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