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1 Thessalonians 3:5
For this reason, when I was no longer able to keep quiet, I sent to get news of your faith, fearing that you might be tested by the Evil One and that our work might come to nothing.

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1 Thessalonians 3:1
At last our desire to have news of you was so strong that, while we ourselves were waiting at Athens,

1 Thessalonians 3:2
We sent Timothy, our brother and God's servant in the good news of Christ, to give you strength and comfort in your faith;

1 Thessalonians 3:3
So that no man might be moved by these troubles; because you see that these things are part of God's purpose for us.

1 Thessalonians 3:4
And when we were with you, we said to you that trouble was before us; and so it came about, as you see.

1 Thessalonians 2:14
For you, my brothers, took as your examples the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; because you underwent the same things from your countrymen as they did from the Jews;

Matthew 13:21
But having no root in himself, he goes on for a time; and when trouble comes or pain, because of the word, he quickly becomes full of doubts.

Matthew 24:10
And numbers of people will be turned from the right way, and will give one another up and have hate for one another.

Luke 8:15
And those in the good earth are those who, having given ear to the word, keep it with a good and true heart, and in quiet strength give fruit.

John 8:31
Then Jesus said to the Jews who had faith in him, If you keep my word, then you are truly my disciples;

Acts 14:22
Making strong the souls of the disciples, saying to them that they were to keep the faith, and that we have to go through troubles of all sorts to come into the kingdom of God.

1 Corinthians 10:13
You have been put to no test but such as is common to man: and God is true, who will not let any test come on you which you are not able to undergo; but he will make with the test a way out of it, so that you may be able to go through it.

1 Thessalonians 1:6
And you took us and the Lord as your example, after the word had come to you in much trouble, with joy in the Holy Spirit;

2 Thessalonians 1:4
So that we ourselves take pride in you in the churches of God for your untroubled mind and your faith in all the troubles and sorrows which you are going through;

Hebrews 10:39
But we are not of those who go back to destruction; but of those who have faith even to the salvation of the soul.

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Matthew 4:3
And the Evil One came and said to him, If you are the Son of God, give the word for these stones to become bread.

1 Corinthians 7:5
Do not keep back from one another what is right, but only for a short time, and by agreement, so that you may give yourselves to prayer, and come together again; so that Satan may not get the better of you through your loss of self-control.

2 Corinthians 11:3
But I have a fear, that in some way, as Eve was tricked by the deceit of the snake, your minds may be turned away from their simple and holy love for Christ.

Luke 22:31
Simon, Simon, Satan has made a request to have you, so that he may put you to the test as grain is tested:

Ephesians 6:12
For our fight is not against flesh and blood, but against authorities and powers, against the world-rulers of this dark night, against the spirits of evil in the heavens.

1 Chronicles 21:1
Now Satan, designing evil against Israel, put into David's mind the impulse to take the number of Israel.

Job 1:9
And the Satan said in answer to the Lord, Is it for nothing that Job is a god-fearing man?

Job 1:10
Have you yourself not put a wall round him and his house and all he has on every side, blessing the work of his hands, and increasing his cattle in the land?

Job 1:11
But now, put out your hand against all he has, and he will be cursing you to your face.

Matthew 4:1
Then Jesus was sent by the Spirit into the waste land to be tested by the Evil One.

Matthew 13:19
When the word of the kingdom comes to anyone, and the sense of it is not clear to him, then the Evil One comes, and quickly takes away that which was put in his heart. He is the seed dropped by the wayside.

John 8:44
You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.

2 Corinthians 2:11
So that Satan may not get the better of us: for we are not without knowledge of his designs.

2 Peter 2:4
For if God did not have pity for the angels who did evil, but sent them down into hell, to be kept in chains of eternal night till they were judged;

Revelation 2:10
Have no fear of the things which you will have to undergo: see, the Evil One will send some of you into prison, so that you may be put to the test; and you will have great trouble for ten days. Be true till death, and I will give you the crown of life.

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1 Thessalonians 3:6
But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has given us good news of your faith and love, and that you have happy memories of us, desiring greatly to see us, even as we do to see you;

1 Thessalonians 3:7
For this cause, brothers, in all our trouble and grief we were comforted about you because of your faith;

1 Thessalonians 3:8
For it is life to us if you keep your faith in the Lord unchanged.

1 Thessalonians 2:17
But we, my brothers, being away from you for a short time, in body but not in heart, had all the more desire to see your face;

1 Thessalonians 2:18
For which reason we made attempts to come to you, even I, Paul, once and again; but Satan kept us from coming.

1 Corinthians 4:17
For this cause I have sent Timothy to you, who is my dear and true child in the Lord; he will make clear to you my ways in Christ, even as I am teaching everywhere in every church.

2 Corinthians 7:5
For even when we had come into Macedonia our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; there were fightings outside and fears inside.

2 Corinthians 7:6
But God who gives comfort to the poor in spirit gave us comfort by the coming of Titus;

2 Corinthians 11:29
Who is feeble and I am not feeble? who is in danger of falling, and I am not angry?

Romans 12:15
Take part in the joy of those who are glad, and in the grief of those who are sorrowing.

1 Corinthians 9:22
To the feeble, I was as one who is feeble, so that they might have salvation: I have been all things to all men, so that some at least might have salvation.

1 Corinthians 13:7
Love has the power of undergoing all things, having faith in all things, hoping all things.

2 Corinthians 2:13
I had no rest in my spirit because Titus my brother was not there: so I went away from them, and came into Macedonia.

Philippians 2:19
But I am hoping in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you before long, so that I may be comforted when I have news of you.

Philippians 2:28
I have sent him, then, the more gladly, so that when you see him again, you may be happy and I may have the less sorrow.

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Galatians 4:11
I am in fear of you, that I may have been working for you to no purpose.

Galatians 2:2
And I went up by revelation; and I put before them the good news which I was preaching among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were of good name, so that the work which I was or had been doing might not be without effect.

Philippians 2:16
Offering the word of life; so that I may have glory in you in the day of Christ, because my running was not for nothing and my work was not without effect.

Isaiah 49:4
And I said, I have undergone weariness for nothing, I have given my strength for no purpose or profit: but still the Lord will take up my cause, and my God will give me my reward.

1 Thessalonians 2:1
For you yourselves, brothers, are conscious that our coming among you was not without effect:

1 Corinthians 15:58
For this cause, my dear brothers, be strong in purpose and unmoved, ever giving yourselves to the work of the Lord, because you are certain that your work is not without effect in the Lord.

2 Corinthians 6:1
We then, working together with God, make our request to you not to take the grace of God to no purpose.

Psalms 73:13
As for me, I have made my heart clean to no purpose, washing my hands in righteousness;

1 Corinthians 9:12
If others have a part in this right over you, have we not even more? But we did not make use of our right, so that we might put nothing in the way of the good news of Christ.

1 Corinthians 9:26
So then I am running, not uncertainly; so I am fighting, not as one who gives blows in the air:

1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God, I am what I am: and his grace which was given to me has not been for nothing; for I did more work than all of them; though not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

1 Thessalonians 2:8
Even so, being full of loving desire for you, we took delight in giving you not only God's good news, but even our lives, because you were dear to us.

1 Thessalonians 2:9
For you have the memory, my brothers, of our trouble and care; how, working night and day, so that we might not be a trouble to any of you, we gave you the good news of God.

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Acts 15:36
And after some days, Paul said to Barnabas, Let us go back and see the brothers in every town where we have given the word of God, and see how they are.

Acts 16:6
And after they had gone through the land of Phrygia and Galatia, the Holy Spirit did not let them take the word into Asia;

Galatians 1:2
And all the brothers who are with me, to the churches of Galatia:

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James 1:13
Let no man say when he is tested, I am tested by God; for it is not possible for God to be tested by evil, and he himself puts no man to such a test:

James 1:14
But every man is tested when he is turned out of the right way by the attraction of his desire.

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Ephesians 6:16
And most of all, using faith as a cover to keep off all the flaming arrows of the Evil One.

Revelation 12:9
And the great dragon was forced down, the old snake, who is named the Evil One and Satan, by whom all the earth is turned from the right way; he was forced down to the earth, and his angels were forced down with him.

Revelation 12:10
And a great voice in heaven came to my ears, saying, Now is come the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ: because he who says evil against our brothers before our God day and night is forced down.

Luke 22:32
But I have made prayer for you, that your faith may not go from you: and when you are turned again, make your brothers strong.

Acts 26:18
To make their eyes open, turning them from the dark to the light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may have forgiveness of sins and a heritage among those who are made holy by faith in me.

Jude 1:6
And the angels who did not keep to their kingdom but went out from the place which was theirs, he has put in eternal chains and in dark night till the great day of the judging.

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Colossians 4:8
And I have sent him to you for this very purpose, so that you may have news of how we are, and so that he may give your hearts comfort;

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