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 one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
• Rom 5:2–5through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
• 1 Pet 1:3–8Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
• Titus 3:4–7But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared,
• Rom 8:24–25For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?
• Titus 1:2in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;
• 1 Th 3:11Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you;
• Eph 5:2Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
• Rom 11:5–6Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
• Col 1:23if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
• Rev 1:5and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood;
• Rom 4:16For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the offspring, 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 will be no more your light by day; nor will the brightness of the moon give light to you, but Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.
• Acts 18:27When he had determined to pass over into Achaia, the brothers encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples to receive him. When he had come, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace;
• Heb 6:18–19that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.
• Rom 4:4Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.
• Isa 61:7Instead of your shame you will have double. Instead of dishonor, they will rejoice in their portion. Therefore in their land, they will possess double. Everlasting joy will be to them.
• Acts 15:11But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they are.”
• Rom 5:8But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
• 2 Cor 4:17–18For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;
• Eph 2:4–5But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,
• Eph 5:25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
• Ps 103:17But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children;
• Isa 35:10The Yahweh’s ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”
• Isa 51:11Those ransomed by Yahweh will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy shall be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy. Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
• Luke 16:25“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish.
• 2 Th 1:1–2Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ:
• Heb 6:11–12We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,
• John 13:1Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
• John 4:14but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”
• John 14:16–18I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever, —
• John 15:9Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.
• John 16:22Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.
• Rev 22:5There will be no night, and they need no lamp light; for the Lord God will illuminate them. They will reign forever and ever.
• Rom 1:7to all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
• Heb 7:19(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.
• Titus 2:13looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ;
• Col 1:5because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News,
• John 15:13Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
• 1 Jn 3:2–3Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

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