1 Thessalonians 4:10
for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more;
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1 Thessalonians 4:10
for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more;
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Deuteronomy 30:6
Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.
Zephaniah 2:3
Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of Yahweh’s anger.
Mark 12:31
The second is like this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
1 Corinthians 7:19
Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but what matters is keeping God’s commandments.
Galatians 5:6
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision amounts to anything, but faith working through love.
Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
2 Timothy 1:7
For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation nor turning shadow.
1 Peter 1:23
having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.
1 John 4:7
Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
1 John 4:8
He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.
1 John 4:16
We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
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Psalms 71:6
I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out of my mother’s womb. I will always praise you.
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Psalms 71:14
But I will always hope, and will add to all of your praise.
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Psalms 84:7
They go from strength to strength. Every one of them appears before God in Zion.
Isaiah 40:29
He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.
Isaiah 40:30
Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall;
Isaiah 40:31
but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.
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Psalms 92:13
They are planted in Yahweh’s house. They will flourish in our God’s courts.
Psalms 92:14
They will still produce fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,
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Jeremiah 2:2
“Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “I remember for you the kindness of your youth, your love as a bride, how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
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Jeremiah 2:3
Israel was holiness to Yahweh, the first fruits of his increase. All who devour him will be held guilty. Evil will come on them,” ’ says Yahweh.”
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Jeremiah 2:4
Hear Yahweh’s word, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel!
Jeremiah 2:5
Yahweh says, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after worthless vanity, and have become worthless?
Revelation 3:14
“To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: “The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of God’s creation, says these things:
Revelation 3:15
“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot.
Revelation 3:16
So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of my mouth.
Revelation 3:17
Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing,’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;
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Matthew 13:31
He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took, and sowed in his field,
Matthew 13:32
which indeed is smaller than all seeds. But when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches.”
Matthew 13:33
He spoke another parable to them. “The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until it was all leavened.”
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Luke 5:29
Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them.
Luke 19:6
He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully.
Acts 16:34
He brought them up into his house and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly with all his household, having believed in God.
James 2:14
What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?
James 2:15
And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,
James 2:16
and one of you tells them, “Go in peace. Be warmed and filled;” yet you didn’t give them the things the body needs, what good is it?
James 2:17
Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.
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Matthew 28:20
teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
Romans 15:18
For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,
1 Corinthians 1:10
Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
1 Corinthians 3:6
I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.
1 Corinthians 14:37
If any man thinks himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.
2 Corinthians 2:9
For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.
2 Corinthians 6:1
Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain.
2 Corinthians 7:15
His affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him.
2 Corinthians 10:1
Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.
Philippians 2:12
So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
2 Thessalonians 3:1
Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified, even as also with you,
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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1 Corinthians 13:1
If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
1 Corinthians 13:2
If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:3
If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:4
Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,
1 Corinthians 13:5
doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;
1 Corinthians 13:6
doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
1 Corinthians 13:7
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.
1 Corinthians 13:8
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.
1 Corinthians 13:9
For we know in part and we prophesy in part;
1 Corinthians 13:10
but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.
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.
1 Corinthians 13:12
For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.
1 Corinthians 13:13
But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 14:1
Follow after love and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.
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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.”
Romans 15:25
But now, I say, I am going to Jerusalem, serving the saints.
2 Corinthians 7:5
For even when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side. Fightings were outside. Fear was inside.
2 Corinthians 8:3
For according to their power, I testify, yes and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord,
2 Corinthians 8:4
begging us with much entreaty to receive this grace and the fellowship in the service to the saints.
2 Corinthians 8:5
This was not as we had expected, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.
2 Corinthians 8:8
I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.
2 Corinthians 8:9
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.
2 Corinthians 8:10
I give advice in this: it is expedient for you who were the first to start a year ago, not only to do, but also to be willing.
2 Corinthians 8:11
But now complete the doing also, that as there was the readiness to be willing, so there may be the completion also out of your ability.
2 Corinthians 9:1
It is indeed unnecessary for me to write to you concerning the service to the saints,
2 Corinthians 9:4
lest by any means, if anyone from Macedonia comes there with me and finds you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) would be disappointed in this confident boasting.
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Romans 15:14
I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.
Ephesians 1:15
For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you and the love which you have toward all the saints,
Philippians 3:12
Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.
2 Peter 1:12
Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them and are established in the present truth.
2 Peter 3:14
Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without defect and blameless in his sight.
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Acts 9:36
Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which when translated means Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and acts of mercy which she did.
2 Corinthians 9:8
And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.
Ephesians 2:10
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
1 Timothy 2:9
In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety, not with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing,
1 Timothy 2:10
but with good works, which is appropriate for women professing godliness.
1 Timothy 5:10
being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.
Titus 2:14
who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
Titus 3:8
This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you insist confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;
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.
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Ephesians 4:1
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,
1 Thessalonians 4:7
For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.
1 Thessalonians 4:18
Therefore comfort one another with these words.
1 Thessalonians 5:14
We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.
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Romans 12:1
Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.
Romans 15:30
Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,
2 Corinthians 5:20
We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
Ephesians 4:12
for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of 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 2:19
and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.
1 Thessalonians 4:2
For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
1 Thessalonians 4:6
that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.
1 Thessalonians 4:8
Therefore he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.
1 Thessalonians 5:13
and to respect and honor them in love for their work’s sake. Be at peace among yourselves.
2 Thessalonians 3:6
Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion and not after the tradition which they received from us.
2 Thessalonians 3:12
Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that they work with quietness and eat their own bread.
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Psalms 115:4
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
Acts 18:5
When Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.
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 1:9
For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God,
1 Thessalonians 1:10
and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.
1 Thessalonians 2:14
For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews
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John 15:17
“I command these things to you, that you may love one another.
Romans 12:9
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.
Ephesians 5:2
Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
1 Thessalonians 5:1
But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you.
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 Peter 2:17
Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
1 Peter 4:8
And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
1 Peter 5:3
not as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.
1 John 2:9
He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness even until now.
1 John 2:27
As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.
1 John 3:11
For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another—
1 John 4:21
This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.
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Hosea 10:12
Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground, for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.
Micah 2:11
If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies, saying, “I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink,” he would be the prophet of this people.
Matthew 6:1
“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
John 13:34
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.
John 13:35
By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Romans 12:8
or he who exhorts, to his exhorting; he who gives, let him do it with generosity; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
Romans 12:11
not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord,
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.
James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
1 John 1:6
If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie and don’t tell the truth.
1 John 2:10
He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.
1 John 3:17
But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?
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Matthew 24:12
Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.
Matthew 24:13
But he who endures to the end will be saved.
John 15:5
I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
John 15:8
“In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.
Romans 2:7
to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;
Galatians 6:9
Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season if we don’t give up.
Ephesians 5:9
for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,
Philippians 4:17
Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.
2 Thessalonians 3:13
But you, brothers, don’t be weary in doing what is right.
1 Peter 1:21
who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope might be in God.
1 John 4:20
If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
Revelation 2:4
But I have this against you, that you left your first love.
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2 John 1:2
for the truth’s sake, which remains in us, and it will be with us forever:
2 John 1:4
I rejoice greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we have been commanded by the Father.
3 John 1:3
For I rejoiced greatly when brothers came and testified about your truth, even as you walk in truth.
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