1 Thessalonians 2:1

1 Thessalonians 2:1
For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn’t in vain,

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2 Samuel 24:14
David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let us fall now into Yahweh’s hand, for his mercies are great. Let me not fall into man’s hand.”

Luke 12:50
But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!

2 Corinthians 6:12
You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections.

Philippians 1:23
But I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

1 Thessalonians 2:17
But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire,

1 Thessalonians 2:20
For you are our glory and our joy.

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Job 39:16
She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear,

Psalms 73:13
Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence,

Psalms 127:1
Unless Yahweh builds the house, they who build it labor in vain. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.

Isaiah 65:23
They will not labor in vain nor give birth for calamity; for they are the offspring of Yahweh’s blessed and their descendants with them.

Habakkuk 2:13
Behold, isn’t it from Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

1 Corinthians 15:2
by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

1 Corinthians 15:14
If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith also is in vain.

1 Corinthians 15:58
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

2 Corinthians 6:1
Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain.

Philippians 2:30
because for the work of Christ he came near to death, risking his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.

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Acts 16:9
A vision appeared to Paul in the night. There was a man of Macedonia standing, begging him and saying, “Come over into Macedonia and help us.”

Acts 16:12
and from there to Philippi, which is a city of Macedonia, the foremost of the district, a Roman colony. We were staying some days in this city.

1 Corinthians 16:9
for a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.

2 Corinthians 2:12
Now when I came to Troas for the Good News of Christ, and when a door was opened to me in the Lord,

Philippians 4:15
You yourselves also know, you Philippians, that in the beginning of the Good News, when I departed from Macedonia, no assembly shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving but you only.

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1 Corinthians 2:3
I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.

1 Corinthians 9:22
To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

1 Corinthians 13:11
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.

2 Peter 2:20
For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

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1 Corinthians 16:15
Now I beg you, brothers—you know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have set themselves to serve the saints—

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Ephesians 1:13
In him you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

Ephesians 4:21
if indeed you heard him and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:

Colossians 2:7
rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

Colossians 2:8
Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elemental spirits of the world, and not after Christ.

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1 Thessalonians 1:1
Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 1:3
remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

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

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1 Thessalonians 2:10
You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.

1 Thessalonians 4:9
But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,

1 Thessalonians 5:2
For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.

2 Thessalonians 3:7
For you know how you ought to imitate us. For we didn’t behave ourselves rebelliously among you,

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2 Timothy 3:10
But you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,

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