2 Thessalonians 2:16

Paul prays that the Lord Jesus and God the Father, who loved us and gave eternal comfort and good hope by grace, would strengthen the church. Lasting encouragement flows from God's gracious love.

Cross-references · 40

• John 3:16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
• Rom 5:2–5By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
• 1 Pet 1:3–8Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
• Titus 3:4–7But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,
• Rom 8:24–25For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
• Titus 1:2In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
• 1 Th 3:11Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you.
• Eph 5:2And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
• Rom 11:5–6Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
• Col 1:23If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
• Rev 1:5And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
• Rom 4:16Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,
• Isa 60:19–20The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
• Acts 18:27And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him: who, when he was come, helped them much which had believed through grace:
• Heb 6:18–19That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
• Rom 4:4Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
• Isa 61:7For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.
• Acts 15:11But we believe that through the grace of the LORD Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.
• Rom 5:8But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
• 2 Cor 4:17–18For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
• Eph 2:4–5But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
• Eph 5:25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
• Ps 103:17But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children;
• Isa 35:10And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
• Isa 51:11Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
• Luke 16:25But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
• 2 Th 1:1–2Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
• Heb 6:11–12And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
• John 13:1Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
• John 4:14But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
• John 14:16–18And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
• John 15:9As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
• John 16:22And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.
• Rev 22:5And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.
• Rom 1:7To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
• Heb 7:19For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
• Titus 2:13Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
• Col 1:5For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;
• John 15:13Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
• 1 Jn 3:2–3Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

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