Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you:
pray.
Matthew 9:38 Pray you therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth …
Luke 10:2 Therefore said he to them, The harvest truly is great, but the laborers …
Romans 15:30 Now I beseech you, brothers, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and …
2 Corinthians 1:11 You also helping together by prayer for us…
Ephesians 6:19,20 And for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my …
Colossians 4:3 With praying also for us, that God would open to us a door of utterance, …
1 Thessalonians 5:17,25 Pray without ceasing…
Hebrews 13:18,19 Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things …
the word.
Acts 6:7 And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied …
Acts 12:24 But the word of God grew and multiplied.
Acts 13:49 And the word of the Lord was published throughout all the region.
Acts 19:20 So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.
1 Corinthians 16:9 For a great door and effectual is opened to me, and there are many adversaries.
2 Timothy 2:9 Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even to bonds; but the …
have free course. Gr. run, be.
Psalm 138:2 I will worship toward your holy temple, and praise your name for …
Acts 13:48 And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the …
even.
1 Thessalonians 1:5 For our gospel came not to you in word only, but also in power, and …
1 Thessalonians 2:1,13 For yourselves, brothers, know our entrance in to you, that it was …
And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith.
delivered.
Romans 15:31 That I may be delivered from them that do not believe in Judaea…
1 Corinthians 15:32 If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, …
2 Corinthians 1:8-10 For we would not, brothers, have you ignorant of our trouble which …
1 Thessalonians 2:18 Why we would have come to you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan …
2 Timothy 4:17 Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that …
unreasonable. Gr. absurd. for.
Deuteronomy 32:20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their …
Matthew 17:17 Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, …
Matthew 23:23 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you pay tithe …
Luke 18:8 I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the …
John 2:23-25 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast day, many …
Acts 13:45,50 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, …
Acts 14:2 But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their …
Acts 17:5 But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took to them certain …
Acts 28:24 And some believed the things which were spoken, and some believed not.
Romans 10:16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias said, Lord, who …
2 Corinthians 4:3,4 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost…
But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.
the Lord. See on
1 Corinthians 1:9 God is faithful, by whom you were called to the fellowship of his …
1 Corinthians 10:13 There has no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but …
1 Thessalonians 5:24 Faithful is he that calls you, who also will do it.
stablish. See on ch.
2 Thessalonians 2:17 Comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good word and work.
and.
Genesis 48:16 The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let …
1 Chronicles 4:10 And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that you would …
Psalm 19:13 Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not …
Psalm 121:7 The LORD shall preserve you from all evil: he shall preserve your soul.
Matthew 6:13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For your …
Luke 11:4 And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted …
John 17:15 I pray not that you should take them out of the world, but that you …
2 Timothy 4:18 And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve …
2 Peter 2:9 The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to …
Jude 1:24 Now to him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present …
And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you.
we have.
Romans 15:14 And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brothers, that you also …
2 Corinthians 2:3 And I wrote this same to you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow …
2 Corinthians 7:16 I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in all things.
2 Corinthians 8:22 And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes proved …
Galatians 5:10 I have confidence in you through the Lord, that you will be none …
Philippians 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which has begun a good …
Philemon 1:21 Having confidence in your obedience I wrote to you, knowing that …
that.
2 Thessalonians 3:6,12 Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ…
Matthew 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatever I have commanded you: …
Romans 2:7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and …
Romans 15:18 For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ …
1 Corinthians 7:19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping …
1 Corinthians 14:37 If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual…
2 Corinthians 2:9 For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of …
2 Corinthians 7:15 And his inward affection is more abundant toward you, whilst he remembers …
Philippians 2:12 Why, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence …
1 Thessalonians 4:1,2,10 Furthermore then we beseech you, brothers, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus…
And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.
the Lord.
1 Kings 8:58 That he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and …
1 Chronicles 29:18 O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers…
Psalm 119:5,36 O that my ways were directed to keep your statutes!…
Proverbs 3:6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct your paths.
Jeremiah 10:23 O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in …
James 1:16-18 Do not err, my beloved brothers…
into.
Deuteronomy 30:6 And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of …
Jeremiah 31:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of …
Romans 5:5 And hope makes not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad …
Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love …
1 Corinthians 8:3 But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, …
James 2:5 Listen, my beloved brothers, Has not God chosen the poor of this …
1 John 4:19 We love him, because he first loved us.
and into.
Psalm 40:1 I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined to me, and heard my cry.
Psalm 130:5,6 I wait for the LORD, my soul does wait, and in his word do I hope…
Lamentations 3:26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation …
Luke 12:36,37 And you yourselves like to men that wait for their lord, when he …
Romans 8:25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
Philippians 3:20,21 For our conversation is in heaven; from where also we look for the …
1 Thessalonians 1:3,10 Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love, …
2 Timothy 4:8 From now on there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which …
Titus 2:13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the …
Hebrews 9:28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many…
2 Peter 3:12 Looking for and hastening to the coming of the day of God, wherein …
Revelation 3:10,11 Because you have kept the word of my patience, I also will keep you …
Revelation 13:10 He that leads into captivity shall go into captivity: he that kills …
the patient waiting for Christ. or, the patience of Christ.
Hebrews 12:2,3 Looking to Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the …
1 Peter 4:1 For as much then as Christ has suffered for us in the flesh, arm …
Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.
in the.
1 Corinthians 5:4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, …
2 Corinthians 2:10 To whom you forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any …
Ephesians 4:17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you from now …
Colossians 3:17 And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord …
1 Thessalonians 4:1 Furthermore then we beseech you, brothers, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus…
1 Timothy 5:21 I charge you before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels…
1 Timothy 6:13,14 I give you charge in the sight of God, who vivifies all things, and …
2 Timothy 4:1 I charge you therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who …
that ye.
2 Thessalonians 3:14,15 And if any man obey not our word by this letter, note that man, and …
Matthew 18:17 And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it to the church: but …
Romans 16:17 Now I beseech you, brothers, mark them which cause divisions and …
1 Corinthians 5:11-13 But now I have written to you not to keep company, if any man that …
1 Timothy 6:5 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the …
2 Timothy 3:5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
Hebrews 12:15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any …
Hebrews 12:16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for …
3 John 1:10,11 Why, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he does, prating …
walketh.
2 Thessalonians 3:7,11 For yourselves know how you ought to follow us: for we behaved not …
1 Thessalonians 4:11 And that you study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and …
1 Thessalonians 5:14 Now we exhort you, brothers, warn them that are unruly, comfort the …
after.
2 Thessalonians 3:10,14 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any …
2 Thessalonians 2:15 Therefore, brothers, stand fast, and hold the traditions which you …
For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;
how.
2 Thessalonians 3:9 Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample …
1 Corinthians 4:16 Why I beseech you, be you followers of me.
1 Corinthians 11:1 Be you followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
Philippians 3:17 Brothers, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so …
Philippians 4:9 Those things, which you have both learned, and received, and heard, …
1 Thessalonians 1:6,7 And you became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received …
1 Timothy 4:12 Let no man despise your youth; but be you an example of the believers, …
Titus 2:7 In all things showing yourself a pattern of good works: in doctrine …
1 Peter 5:3 Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.
for.
2 Thessalonians 3:6 Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ…
1 Thessalonians 2:10 You are witnesses, and God also, how piously and justly and blamelessly …
Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:
eat.
2 Thessalonians 3:12 Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, …
Proverbs 31:27 She looks well to the ways of her household, and eats not the bread of idleness.
Matthew 6:11 Give us this day our daily bread.
but.
Acts 18:3 And because he was of the same craft, he stayed with them, and worked: …
Acts 20:34 Yes, you yourselves know, that these hands have ministered to my …
1 Corinthians 4:12 And labor, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being …
2 Corinthians 11:9 And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man…
1 Thessalonians 4:11 And that you study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and …
night. See on
1 Thessalonians 2:9 For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail: for laboring night …
Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
when.
Luke 24:44 And he said to them, These are the words which I spoke to you, while …
John 16:4 But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, …
Acts 20:18 And when they were come to him, he said to them, You know, from the …
that.
Genesis 3:19 In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread, till you return to …
Proverbs 13:4 The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing: but the soul of …
Proverbs 20:4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall …
Proverbs 21:25 The desire of the slothful kills him; for his hands refuse to labor.
Proverbs 24:30-34 I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man …
1 Thessalonians 4:11 And that you study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and …
For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.
Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
we. See on ver.
2 Thessalonians 3:6 Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ…
that with.
Genesis 49:14,15 Issachar is a strong donkey couching down between two burdens…
Proverbs 17:1 Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full …
Ecclesiastes 4:6 Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with …
Ephesians 4:28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working …
1 Thessalonians 4:11 And that you study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and …
1 Timothy 2:2 For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a …
eat. See on ver.
2 Thessalonians 3:8 Neither did we eat any man's bread for nothing; but worked with labor …
Luke 11:3 Give us day by day our daily bread.
But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.
ye.
Isaiah 40:30,31 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall …
Malachi 1:13 You said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and you have snuffed …
Romans 2:7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and …
1 Corinthians 15:28 And when all things shall be subdued to him, then shall the Son also …
Galatians 6:9,10 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall …
Philippians 1:9 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge …
1 Thessalonians 4:1 Furthermore then we beseech you, brothers, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus…
Hebrews 12:3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against …
be not weary. or, faint not.
Deuteronomy 20:8 And the officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall …
Psalm 27:13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD …
Isaiah 40:29 He gives power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increases …
Zephaniah 3:16 In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear you not: and to Zion, …
Luke 18:1 And he spoke a parable to them to this end, that men ought always …
2 Corinthians 4:1,16 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, …
Hebrews 12:5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to …
Revelation 2:3 And have borne, and have patience, and for my name's sake have labored, …
And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.
obey.
Deuteronomy 16:12 And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt: and you shall …
Proverbs 5:13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear …
Zephaniah 3:2 She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted …
2 Corinthians 2:9 For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of …
2 Corinthians 7:15 And his inward affection is more abundant toward you, whilst he remembers …
2 Corinthians 10:6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your …
Philippians 2:12 Why, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence …
1 Thessalonians 4:8 He therefore that despises, despises not man, but God, who has also …
Philemon 1:21 Having confidence in your obedience I wrote to you, knowing that …
Hebrews 13:17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for …
by this epistle, note that man. or, signify that man by an epistle. ver.
2 Thessalonians 3:6 Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ…
Matthew 18:17 And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it to the church: but …
Romans 16:17 Now I beseech you, brothers, mark them which cause divisions and …
1 Corinthians 5:9,11 I wrote to you in an letter not to company with fornicators…
Titus 3:10 A man that is an heretic after the first and second admonition reject;
that he.
Numbers 12:14 And the LORD said to Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, …
Ezra 9:6 And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to …
Psalm 83:16 Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek your name, O LORD.
Jeremiah 3:3 Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter …
Jeremiah 6:15 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? no, they were …
Jeremiah 31:18-20 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; You have chastised …
Ezekiel 16:61-63 Then you shall remember your ways, and be ashamed, when you shall …
Ezekiel 36:31,32 Then shall you remember your own evil ways, and your doings that …
Luke 15:18-21 I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I …
Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
count.
Leviticus 19:17,18 You shall not hate your brother in your heart: you shall in any wise …
1 Corinthians 5:5 To deliver such an one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, …
2 Corinthians 2:6-10 Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many…
2 Corinthians 10:8 For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the …
2 Corinthians 13:10 Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I …
Galatians 6:1 Brothers, if a man be overtaken in a fault, you which are spiritual, …
1 Thessalonians 5:14 Now we exhort you, brothers, warn them that are unruly, comfort the …
Jude 1:22,23 And of some have compassion, making a difference…
admonish.
Psalm 141:5 Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove …
Proverbs 9:9 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a …
Proverbs 25:12 As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise …
Matthew 18:15 Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you, go and tell …
1 Corinthians 4:14 I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.
Titus 3:10 A man that is an heretic after the first and second admonition reject;
James 5:19,20 Brothers, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him…
Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all.
the Lord of.
Psalm 72:3,7 The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, …
Isaiah 9:6,7 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given: and the government …
Zechariah 6:13 Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the …
Luke 2:14 Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
John 14:27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you: not as the world …
Romans 15:33 Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
Romans 16:20 And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. …
1 Corinthians 14:33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches …
2 Corinthians 5:19-21 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, …
2 Corinthians 13:11 Finally, brothers, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of …
Ephesians 2:14-17 For he is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the …
1 Thessalonians 5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly…
Hebrews 7:2 To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation …
Hebrews 13:20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, …
give.
Numbers 6:26 The LORD lift up his countenance on you, and give you peace.
Judges 6:24 Then Gideon built an altar there to the LORD, and called it Jehovahshalom: …
Psalm 29:11 The LORD will give strength to his people; the LORD will bless his …
Psalm 85:8-10 I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace …
Isaiah 26:12 LORD, you will ordain peace for us: for you also have worked all …
Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: …
Isaiah 54:10 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my …
Isaiah 66:12 For thus said the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a …
Haggai 2:9 The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, …
John 16:33 These things I have spoken to you, that in me you might have peace. …
See on
Romans 1:7 To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace …
Philippians 4:7-9 And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, shall keep …
The Lord be.
2 Thessalonians 3:18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
1 Samuel 17:37 David said moreover, The LORD that delivered me out of the paw of …
1 Samuel 20:13 The LORD do so and much more to Jonathan: but if it please my father …
Psalm 46:7,11 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah…
Isaiah 8:10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to nothing; speak the word, …
Matthew 1:23 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, …
Matthew 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatever I have commanded you: …
2 Timothy 4:22 The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.
Philemon 1:25 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.
The salutation of Paul with mine own hand, which is the token in every epistle: so I write.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
See on
Romans 16:20,24 And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. …
CONCLUDING REMARKS ON THE EPISTLES TO THE THESSALONIANS.
The First Epistle to the Thessalonians, it is generally agreed, was the earliest written of all Paul's epistles, whence we see the reason and propriety of his anxiety that it should be read in all the Christian churches of Macedonia--'I charge you by the Lord, that this Epistle be read unto all the holy brethren.' (ch.
