2 Thessalonians 1:4

Paul tells other churches about the Thessalonians' steadfastness and faith under persecution. Their endurance becomes a public testimony to God's sustaining grace.

Cross-references · 21

• Heb 10:36For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
• Jas 5:7–8Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
• Heb 12:1–3Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
• 1 Th 2:14For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:
• 2 Cor 7:14For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.
• 1 Th 2:19For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
• 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;
• 1 Cor 7:17But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.
• Rev 14:12Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
• Rom 5:3–5And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
• 1 Th 3:2–8And sent Timotheus, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith:
• 2 Th 3:5And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.
• Heb 6:15And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
• Jas 5:11Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
• 2 Cor 9:2For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many.
• 2 Cor 9:4Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.
• 2 Pet 1:6And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
• Rom 8:25But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
• Jas 1:3–4Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
• Rom 2:7To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
• Rom 12:12Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;

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