Bible Cross References
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1 Thessalonians 2:13
And there is another reason why we always give thanks to God. When we brought you God's message, you heard it and accepted it, not as a message from human beings but as God's message, which indeed it is. For God is at work in you who believe.
1 Thessalonians 1:3-10
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For we remember before our God and Father how you put your faith into practice, how your love made you work so hard, and how your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ is firm.
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Our friends, we know that God loves you and has chosen you to be his own.
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For we brought the Good News to you, not with words only, but also with power and the Holy Spirit, and with complete conviction of its truth. You know how we lived when we were with you; it was for your own good.
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You imitated us and the Lord; and even though you suffered much, you received the message with the joy that comes from the Holy Spirit.
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So you became an example to all believers in Macedonia and Achaia.
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For not only did the message about the Lord go out from you throughout Macedonia and Achaia, but the news about your faith in God has gone everywhere. There is nothing, then, that we need to say.
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All those people speak about how you received us when we visited you, and how you turned away from idols to God, to serve the true and living God
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and to wait for his Son to come from heaven---his Son Jesus, whom he raised from death and who rescues us from God's anger that is coming.
2 Thessalonians 3:1
Finally, our friends, pray for us that the Lord's message may continue to spread rapidly and be received with honor, just as it was among you.
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1 Thessalonians 3:5
That is why I had to send Timothy. I could not bear it any longer, so I sent him to find out about your faith. Surely it could not be that the Devil had tempted you and all our work had been for nothing!
Job 39:16
She acts as if the eggs were not hers, and is unconcerned that her efforts were wasted.
Psalm 73:13
Is it for nothing, then, that I have kept myself pure and have not committed sin?
Psalm 127:1
If the LORD does not build the house, the work of the builders is useless; if the LORD does not protect the city, it does no good for the sentries to stand guard.
Isaiah 49:4
I said, "I have worked, but how hopeless it is! I have used up my strength, but have accomplished nothing." Yet I can trust the LORD to defend my cause; he will reward me for what I do.
Isaiah 65:23
The work they do will be successful, and their children will not meet with disaster. I will bless them and their descendants for all time to come.
Habakkuk 2:13
The nations you conquered wore themselves out in useless labor, and all they have built goes up in flames. The LORD Almighty has done this.
1 Corinthians 15:2
That is the gospel, the message that I preached to you. You are saved by the gospel if you hold firmly to it---unless it was for nothing that you believed.
1 Corinthians 15:10
But by God's grace I am what I am, and the grace that he gave me was not without effect. On the contrary, I have worked harder than any of the other apostles, although it was not really my own doing, but God's grace working with me.
1 Corinthians 15:58
So then, my dear friends, stand firm and steady. Keep busy always in your work for the Lord, since you know that nothing you do in the Lord's service is ever useless.
2 Corinthians 6:1
In our work together with God, then, we beg you who have received God's grace not to let it be wasted.
Galatians 2:2
I went because God revealed to me that I should go. In a private meeting with the leaders I explained the gospel message that I preach to the Gentiles. I did not want my work in the past or in the present to be a failure.
Galatians 4:11
I am worried about you! Can it be that all my work for you has been for nothing?
Philippians 2:16
as you offer them the message of life. If you do so, I shall have reason to be proud of you on the Day of Christ, because it will show that all my effort and work have not been wasted.