1 Thessalonians 2:13

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1 Thessalonians 2:11–15 · Berean Standard Bible

11 For you know that we treated each of you as a father treats his own children—

12 encouraging you, comforting you, and urging you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.

13 And we continually thank God because, when you received the word of God that you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as the true word of God—the word which is now at work in you who believe.

14 For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Judea that are in Christ Jesus. You suffered from your own countrymen the very things they suffered from the Jews,

15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men,

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1 Thessalonians 1:3

and continually recalling before our God and Father your work of faith, your labor of love, and your enduring hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Romans 1:8

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being proclaimed all over the world.

Romans 1:9

God, whom I serve with my spirit in preaching the gospel of His Son, is my witness how constantly I remember you

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“As for the word you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you!

Matthew 10:13

If the home is worthy, let your peace rest on it; but if it is not, let your peace return to you.

Matthew 10:14

And if anyone will not welcome you or heed your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that home or town.

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He who receives you receives Me, and he who receives Me receives the One who sent Me.

Acts 2:41

Those who embraced his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to the believers that day.

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So I sent for you immediately, and you were kind enough to come. Now then, we are all here in the presence of God to listen to everything the Lord has instructed you to tell us.”

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But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and they blasphemously contradicted what Paul was saying.

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When the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord, and all who were appointed for eternal life believed.

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Among those listening was a woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Thyatira, who was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul’s message.

Acts 16:30

Then he brought them out and asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

Acts 16:31

They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, you and your household.”

Acts 16:32

Then Paul and Silas spoke the word of the Lord to him and to everyone in his house.

Acts 16:33

At that hour of the night, the jailer took them and washed their wounds. And without delay, he and all his household were baptized.

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Then he brought them into his home and set a meal before them. So he and all his household rejoiced that they had come to believe in God.

Acts 17:11

Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.

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Some Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also began to debate with him. Some of them asked, “What is this babbler trying to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign gods.” They said this because Paul was proclaiming the good news of Jesus and the resurrection.

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So they took Paul and brought him to the Areopagus, where they asked him, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?

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For you are bringing some strange notions to our ears, and we want to know what they mean.”

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When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some began to mock him, but others said, “We want to hear you again on this topic.”

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And although my illness was a trial to you, you did not despise or reject me. Instead, you welcomed me as if I were an angel of God, as if I were Christ Jesus Himself.

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by recalling what was foretold by the holy prophets and commanded by our Lord and Savior through your apostles.

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Let the prophet who has a dream retell it, but let him who has My word speak it truthfully. For what is straw compared to grain?” declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 23:29

“Is not My word like fire,” declares the LORD, “and like a hammer that smashes a rock?”

Luke 5:1

On one occasion, while Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret with the crowd pressing in on Him to hear the word of God,

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Now this is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God.

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But He replied, “My mother and brothers are those who hear the word of God and carry it out.”

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But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”

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On the following Sabbath, nearly the whole city gathered to hear the word of the Lord.

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Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: “It was necessary to speak the word of God to you first. But since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles.

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Consequently, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

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For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

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but the word of the Lord stands forever.” And this is the word that was proclaimed to you.

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For we did not follow cleverly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty.

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For He received honor and glory from God the Father when the voice came to Him from the Majestic Glory, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

2 Peter 1:18

And we ourselves heard this voice from heaven when we were with Him on the holy mountain.

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2 Peter 1:20

Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture comes from one’s own interpretation.

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For no such prophecy was ever brought forth by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

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because our gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power, in the Holy Spirit, and with great conviction—just as you know we lived among you for your sake.

1 Thessalonians 1:6

And you became imitators of us and of the Lord when you welcomed the message with the joy of the Holy Spirit, in spite of your great suffering.

1 Thessalonians 1:7

As a result, you have become an example to all the believers in Macedonia and Achaia.

1 Thessalonians 1:8

For not only did the message of the Lord ring out from you to Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith in God has gone out to every place, so that we have no need to say anything more.

1 Thessalonians 1:9

For they themselves report what kind of welcome you gave us, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God

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and to await His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead—Jesus our deliverer from the coming wrath.

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You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.

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Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth.

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For them I sanctify Myself, so that they too may be sanctified by the truth.

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But thanks be to God that, though you once were slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were committed.

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You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.

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And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into His image with intensifying glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

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that has come to you. All over the world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and truly understood the grace of God.

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He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of His creation.

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For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.

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Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,

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And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as Christ is pure.

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because everyone born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.

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Who then overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.