Bible Cross References
we desire
Romans 12:8
if it is to encourage others, we should do so. Whoever shares with others should do it generously; whoever has authority should work hard; whoever shows kindness to others should do it cheerfully.
Romans 12:11
Work hard and do not be lazy. Serve the Lord with a heart full of devotion.
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.
Galatians 6:9
So let us not become tired of doing good; for if we do not give up, the time will come when we will reap the harvest.
Philippians 1:9-11
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I pray that your love will keep on growing more and more, together with true knowledge and perfect judgment,
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so that you will be able to choose what is best. Then you will be free from all impurity and blame on the Day of Christ.
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Your lives will be filled with the truly good qualities which only Jesus Christ can produce, for the glory and praise of God.
Philippians 3:15
All of us who are spiritually mature should have this same attitude. But if some of you have a different attitude, God will make this clear to you.
1 Thessalonians 4:10
And you have, in fact, behaved like this toward all the believers in all of Macedonia. So we beg you, our friends, to do even more.
2 Thessalonians 3:13
But you, friends, must not become tired of doing good.
2 Peter 1:5-8
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For this very reason do your best to add goodness to your faith; to your goodness add knowledge;
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to your knowledge add self-control; to your self-control add endurance; to your endurance add godliness;
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to your godliness add Christian affection; and to your Christian affection add love.
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These are the qualities you need, and if you have them in abundance, they will make you active and effective in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Peter 3:14
And so, my friends, as you wait for that Day, do your best to be pure and faultless in God's sight and to be at peace with him.
to the
Hebrews 3:6
But Christ is faithful as the Son in charge of God's house. We are his house if we keep up our courage and our confidence in what we hope for.
Hebrews 3:14
For we are all partners with Christ if we hold firmly to the end the confidence we had at the beginning.
Hebrews 10:22
So let us come near to God with a sincere heart and a sure faith, with hearts that have been purified from a guilty conscience and with bodies washed with clean water.
Isaiah 32:17
Because everyone will do what is right, there will be peace and security forever.
Colossians 2:2
I do this in order that they may be filled with courage and may be drawn together in love, and so have the full wealth of assurance which true understanding brings. In this way they will know God's secret, which is Christ himself.
1 Thessalonians 1:5
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.
2 Peter 1:10
So then, my friends, try even harder to make God's call and his choice of you a permanent experience; if you do so, you will never abandon your faith.
1 John 3:14
We know that we have left death and come over into life; we know it because we love others. Those who do not love are still under the power of death.
1 John 3:19
This, then, is how we will know that we belong to the truth; this is how we will be confident in God's presence.
of hope
Hebrews 6:18-20
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There are these two things, then, that cannot change and about which God cannot lie. So we who have found safety with him are greatly encouraged to hold firmly to the hope placed before us.
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We have this hope as an anchor for our lives. It is safe and sure, and goes through the curtain of the heavenly temple into the inner sanctuary.
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On our behalf Jesus has gone in there before us and has become a high priest forever, in the priestly order of Melchizedek.
Romans 5:2-5
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He has brought us by faith into this experience of God's grace, in which we now live. And so we boast of the hope we have of sharing God's glory!
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We also boast of our troubles, because we know that trouble produces endurance,
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endurance brings God's approval, and his approval creates hope.
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This hope does not disappoint us, for God has poured out his love into our hearts by means of the Holy Spirit, who is God's gift to us.
Romans 8:24
For it was by hope that we were saved; but if we see what we hope for, then it is not really hope. For who of us hopes for something we see?
Romans 8:25
But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
Romans 12:12
Let your hope keep you joyful, be patient in your troubles, and pray at all times.
Romans 15:13
May God, the source of hope, fill you with all joy and peace by means of your faith in him, so that your hope will continue to grow by the power of the Holy Spirit.
1 Corinthians 13:13
Meanwhile these three remain: faith, hope, and love; and the greatest of these is love.
Galatians 5:5
As for us, our hope is that God will put us right with him; and this is what we wait for by the power of God's Spirit working through our faith.
Colossians 1:5
When the true message, the Good News, first came to you, you heard about the hope it offers. So your faith and love are based on what you hope for, which is kept safe for you in heaven.
Colossians 1:23
You must, of course, continue faithful on a firm and sure foundation, and must not allow yourselves to be shaken from the hope you gained when you heard the gospel. It is of this gospel that I, Paul, became a servant---this gospel which has been preached to everybody in the world.
2 Thessalonians 2:16
May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and in his grace gave us unfailing courage and a firm hope,
2 Thessalonians 2:17
encourage you and strengthen you to always do and say what is good.
1 Peter 1:3-5
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Let us give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! Because of his great mercy he gave us new life by raising Jesus Christ from death. This fills us with a living hope,
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and so we look forward to possessing the rich blessings that God keeps for his people. He keeps them for you in heaven, where they cannot decay or spoil or fade away.
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They are for you, who through faith are kept safe by God's power for the salvation which is ready to be revealed at the end of time.
1 Peter 1:21-5
1 John 3:1-3
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See how much the Father has loved us! His love is so great that we are called God's children---and so, in fact, we are. This is why the world does not know us: it has not known God.
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My dear friends, we are now God's children, but it is not yet clear what we shall become. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he really is.
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Everyone who has this hope in Christ keeps himself pure, just as Christ is pure.
unto
Hebrews 3:6
But Christ is faithful as the Son in charge of God's house. We are his house if we keep up our courage and our confidence in what we hope for.
Hebrews 3:14
For we are all partners with Christ if we hold firmly to the end the confidence we had at the beginning.
Hebrews 10:32-35
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Remember how it was with you in the past. In those days, after God's light had shone on you, you suffered many things, yet were not defeated by the struggle.
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You were at times publicly insulted and mistreated, and at other times you were ready to join those who were being treated in this way.
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You shared the sufferings of prisoners, and when all your belongings were seized, you endured your loss gladly, because you knew that you still possessed something much better, which would last forever.
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Do not lose your courage, then, because it brings with it a great reward.
Matthew 24:13
But whoever holds out to the end will be saved.
Revelation 2:26
To those who win the victory, who continue to the end to do what I want, I will give the same authority that I received from my Father: I will give them authority over the nations, to rule them with an iron rod and to break them to pieces like clay pots. I will also give them the morning star.