1 Thessalonians 1:4

1 Thessalonians 1:4
We know, brothers loved by God, that you are chosen,

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Mark 2:5
Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.”

Acts 11:23
who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.

James 2:19
You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe—and shudder.

James 2:20
But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?

James 2:21
Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?

James 2:23
So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God.

James 2:24
You see then that by works a man is justified, and not only by faith.

James 2:25
In the same way, wasn’t Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way?

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Romans 11:6
And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.

1 Corinthians 1:27
but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world that he might put to shame the things that are strong.

1 Corinthians 1:28
God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that don’t exist, that he might bring to nothing the things that exist,

Ephesians 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

1 Thessalonians 5:5
You are all children of light and children of the day. We don’t belong to the night, nor to darkness,

1 Thessalonians 5:9
For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

2 Timothy 1:9
who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

1 Peter 1:5
who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

1 Peter 2:4
Come to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.

1 Peter 5:13
She who is in Babylon, chosen together with you, greets you. So does Mark, my son.

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Hebrews 6:9
But, beloved, we are persuaded of better things for you, and things that accompany salvation, even though we speak like this.

Hebrews 6:10
For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

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