2 Thessalonians 3:13

Paul encourages the rest of the church never to grow weary in doing good. Faithful well-doing must continue despite the failures of a few.

Cross-references · 16

• Gal 6:9–10And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
• Heb 12:3For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
• 2 Cor 4:1Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
• Isa 40:29–31He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
• 2 Cor 4:16For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
• Luke 18:1And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;
• Ps 27:13I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
• Rev 2:3And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name’s sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.
• Zeph 3:16In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not: and to Zion, Let not thine hands be slack.
• 1 Th 4:1Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
• Heb 12:5And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
• Phil 1:9And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
• Mal 1:13Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye have snuffed at it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand? saith the LORD.
• Deut 20:8And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren’s heart faint as well as his heart.
• Rom 2:7To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
• 1 Cor 15:28And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

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