1 Thessalonians 3:2
and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you and to comfort you concerning your faith,
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1 Thessalonians 3:2
and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you and to comfort you concerning your faith,
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Deuteronomy 3:28
But commission Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him; for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which you shall see.”
Ezra 1:6
All those who were around them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, with animals, and with precious things, in addition to all that was willingly offered.
Job 4:3
Behold, you have instructed many, you have strengthened the weak hands.
Job 4:4
Your words have supported him who was falling, you have made the feeble knees firm.
Job 29:25
I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, as one who comforts the mourners.
Luke 22:43
An angel from heaven appeared to him, strengthening him.
Hebrews 12:12
Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,
Hebrews 12:13
and make straight paths for your feet, so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
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2 Samuel 24:2
The king said to Joab the captain of the army, who was with him, “Now go back and forth through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and count the people, that I may know the sum of the people.”
Isaiah 7:9
The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.’ ”
Isaiah 61:1
The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,
Romans 15:13
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Galatians 5:1
Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
Ephesians 4:14
that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;
Ephesians 4:15
but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ,
Ephesians 4:16
from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.
Colossians 2:6
As therefore you received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him,
Hebrews 13:20
Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,
Hebrews 13:21
make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
Jude 1:24
Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,
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Psalms 51:12
Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.
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Psalms 51:13
Then I will teach transgressors your ways. Sinners will be converted to you.
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Isaiah 61:6
But you will be called Yahweh’s priests. Men will call you the servants of our God. You will eat the wealth of the nations. You will boast in their glory.
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Hosea 11:9
I will not execute the fierceness of my anger. I will not return to destroy Ephraim, for I am God, and not man—the Holy One among you. I will not come in wrath.
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Joel 1:9
The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from Yahweh’s house. The priests, Yahweh’s ministers, mourn.
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Joel 2:17
Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, “Spare your people, Yahweh, and don’t give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’ ”
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Proverbs 4:26
Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.
Proverbs 4:27
Don’t turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil.
Proverbs 8:20
I walk in the way of righteousness, in the middle of the paths of justice,
Isaiah 30:21
and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”
Isaiah 35:8
A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called “The Holy Way”. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools shall not go there.
Isaiah 57:14
He will say, “Build up, build up, prepare the way! Remove the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.”
Jeremiah 6:16
Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
Matthew 7:14
How narrow is the gate and the way is restricted that leads to life! There are few who find it.
Matthew 16:24
Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.
Matthew 16:25
For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.
Mark 8:34
He called the multitude to himself with his disciples and said to them, “Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
John 15:18
If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
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Mark 10:29
Jesus said, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News,
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Mark 10:30
but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time: houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.
2 Corinthians 8:1
Moreover, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the assemblies of Macedonia,
2 Corinthians 8:2
how in a severe ordeal of affliction, the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their generosity.
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Luke 16:26
Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that no one may cross over from there to us.’
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John 15:19
If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
John 15:20
Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.
John 16:2
They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.
John 16:33
I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”
2 Timothy 3:12
Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
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John 21:15
So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”
John 21:16
He said to him again a second time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.”
John 21:17
He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?” Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, “Do you have affection for me?” He said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.
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Acts 8:14
Now when the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them,
Acts 11:1
Now the apostles and the brothers who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.
Acts 11:19
They therefore who were scattered abroad by the oppression that arose about Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except to Jews only.
Acts 11:20
But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they had come to Antioch, spoke to the Hellenists, preaching the Lord Jesus.
Acts 11:21
The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord.
Acts 11:22
The report concerning them came to the ears of the assembly which was in Jerusalem. They sent out Barnabas to go as far as Antioch,
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Acts 17:16
Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.
Acts 17:17
So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him.
Acts 17:18
Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
Acts 17:19
They took hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is, which you are speaking about?
Acts 17:20
For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean.”
Acts 17:21
Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.
Acts 17:22
Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus and said, “You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.
Acts 17:23
For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription: ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ What therefore you worship in ignorance, I announce to you.
Acts 17:24
The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands.
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Acts 20:5
But these had gone ahead, and were waiting for us at Troas.
Titus 3:12
When I send Artemas to you, or Tychicus, be diligent to come to me to Nicopolis, for I have determined to winter there.
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Acts 20:12
They brought the boy in alive, and were greatly comforted.
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Acts 19:21
Now after these things had ended, Paul determined in the Spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”
Acts 20:17
From Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called to himself the elders of the assembly.
Acts 21:19
When he had greeted them, he reported one by one the things which God had worked among the Gentiles through his ministry.
Acts 26:16
But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness both of the things which you have seen and of the things which I will reveal to you;
1 Corinthians 1:6
even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you—
1 Corinthians 1:7
so that you come behind in no gift, waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,
1 Corinthians 16:9
for a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.
1 Corinthians 16:12
Now concerning Apollos the brother, I strongly urged him to come to you with the brothers, but it was not at all his desire to come now; but he will come when he has an opportunity.
Galatians 1:2
and all the brothers who are with me, to the assemblies of Galatia:
Philippians 2:24
But I trust in the Lord that I myself also will come shortly.
1 Timothy 6:20
Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge,
Hebrews 10:32
But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings:
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Romans 16:3
Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,
1 Timothy 5:23
Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent infirmities.
Philemon 1:2
to the beloved Apphia, to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the assembly in your house:
James 5:8
You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
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1 Corinthians 16:17
I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus; for that which was lacking on your part, they supplied.
1 Corinthians 16:18
For they refreshed my spirit and yours. Therefore acknowledge those who are like that.
3 John 1:2
Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers.
3 John 1:3
For I rejoiced greatly when brothers came and testified about your truth, even as you walk in truth.
3 John 1:4
I have no greater joy than this: to hear about my children walking in truth.
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2 Corinthians 4:8
We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;
2 Corinthians 4:9
pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;
2 Corinthians 4:10
always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
2 Corinthians 4:11
For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.
2 Corinthians 4:12
So then death works in us, but life in you.
2 Corinthians 4:16
Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward person is decaying, yet our inward person is renewed day by day.
2 Corinthians 4:17
For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,
2 Corinthians 4:18
while we don’t look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
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Acts 1:17
For he was counted with us, and received his portion in this ministry.
Acts 1:25
to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.”
Acts 14:23
When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord on whom they had believed.
2 Corinthians 1:7
Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so you are also of the comfort.
2 Corinthians 5:18
But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;
Philippians 1:25
Having this confidence, I know that I will remain, yes, and remain with you all for your progress and joy in the faith,
Colossians 1:24
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly,
1 Timothy 1:12
I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service,
1 Timothy 4:12
Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.
1 Timothy 4:14
Don’t neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the elders.
2 Timothy 1:6
For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.
2 Timothy 4:5
But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.
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Acts 15:1
Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be saved.”
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.
2 Corinthians 13:11
Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.
Galatians 1:7
but there isn’t another “good news.” Only there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.
Ephesians 3:18
may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and height and depth,
Ephesians 4:12
for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ,
Colossians 2:5
For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.
Colossians 4:12
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
Hebrews 3:6
but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.
2 Peter 3:17
You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.
2 Peter 3:18
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.
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Philippians 1:12
Now I desire to have you know, brothers, that the things which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress of the Good News,
Philippians 1:13
so that it became evident to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my bonds are in Christ,
Philippians 1:14
and that most of the brothers in the Lord, being confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word of God without fear.
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Isaiah 62:7
and give him no rest until he establishes, and until he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
Romans 1:9
For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,
2 Corinthians 9:3
But I have sent the brothers so that our boasting on your behalf may not be in vain in this respect, that, just as I said, you may be prepared,
1 Thessalonians 1:7
so that you became an example to all who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia.
1 Thessalonians 1:8
For from you the word of the Lord has been declared, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone out, so that we need not to say anything.
1 Thessalonians 2:7
But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.
1 Thessalonians 2:8
Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.
1 Thessalonians 2:9
For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.
1 Thessalonians 2:13
For this cause we also thank God without ceasing that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, God’s word, which also works in you who believe.
1 Thessalonians 3:7
For this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith.
1 Thessalonians 3:9
For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God,
2 Thessalonians 2:13
But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,
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Hosea 2:14
“Therefore behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.
Acts 16:6
When they had gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.
Acts 20:24
But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.
1 Corinthians 10:13
No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
2 Corinthians 1:24
We don’t control your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.
Ephesians 3:1
For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,
Ephesians 3:8
To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
1 Thessalonians 5:13
and to respect and honor them in love for their work’s sake. Be at peace among yourselves.
2 Timothy 1:8
Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,
Hebrews 13:7
Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.
James 1:2
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,
1 Peter 4:12
Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.
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2 Thessalonians 2:5
Don’t you remember that when I was still with you, I told you these things?
2 Thessalonians 3:17
I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand, which is the sign in every letter. This is how I write.
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Philippians 2:28
I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that when you see him again, you may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.
Colossians 1:4
having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which you have toward all the saints,
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.
2 Thessalonians 2:14
to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Timothy 1:4
longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy;
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Matthew 13:52
He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things.”
Acts 6:4
But we will continue steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry of the word.”
Acts 14:21
When they had preached the Good News to that city and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,
Acts 17:5
But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.
Romans 1:5
through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations for his name’s sake;
Romans 15:16
that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
1 Corinthians 4:2
Here, moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.
2 Corinthians 4:1
Therefore, seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.
Ephesians 3:7
of which I was made a servant according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.
Ephesians 3:13
Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.
1 Timothy 6:11
But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.
2 Timothy 2:15
Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.
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1 Corinthians 14:3
But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, exhortation, and consolation.
1 Corinthians 14:31
For you all can prophesy one by one, that all may learn and all may be exhorted.
Hebrews 13:22
But I exhort you, brothers, endure the word of exhortation, for I have written to you in few words.
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