1 Thessalonians 2:1 Cross References - CAB

¹ For you yourselves know, brothers, regarding our coming to you, that it was not in vain.

¹⁶ She has hardened herself against her young ones, as though she bereaved not herself: she labors in vain without fear.

¹³ And I said, Verily in vain have I justified my heart, and washed my hands in innocence.

¹ A Song of Degrees. Except the Lord build the house, they that build labor in vain: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman watches in vain.

⁴ Then I said, I have labored in vain, I have given my strength for vanity and for nothing; therefore is my judgment with the Lord, and my labor before my God.

²³ My elect shall not toil in vain; neither shall they beget children to be cursed; for they are a seed blessed of God, and their offspring with them.

¹³ Are not these things of the Lord Almighty? Surely many people have been exhausted in the fire, and many nations have fainted.

² through which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you--unless you believed in vain.

¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than them all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

⁵⁸ So then, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

¹ And working together with Him, we also urge that you not receive the grace of God in vain.

² And I went up by revelation, and I set before them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to those with influence, lest somehow I might run, or had run, for nothing.

¹¹ I am afraid for you, lest somehow I have worked hard for you in vain.

¹⁶ holding fast the word of life, so that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain or labored in vain.

³ constantly remembering your work of faith, labor of love, and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father, ⁴ knowing, beloved brothers, your election by God. ⁵ For our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit and in much assurance, just as you know what kind of men we were among you for your sake. ⁶ And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, in that you received the word in much tribulation, with joy of the Holy Spirit, ⁷ so that you became patterns to all those who believe in Macedonia and Achaia. ⁸ For from you the word of the Lord has resounded, not only in Macedonia and in Achaia, but also in every place. Your faith toward God has gone forth, so that we have no need to say anything. ⁹ For they themselves report about us what kind of entrance we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, ¹⁰ and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, Jesus, who delivers us from the coming wrath.

¹³ Because of this we also give thanks to God unceasingly, so that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you received not the word of men, but just as it truly is, the word of God, which also is at work in you who believe.

⁵ Because of this, when I could no longer endure it, I sent to learn about your faith, lest somehow the tempter had tempted you, and our labor be in vain.

¹⁰ whenever He comes, in that Day, to be glorified among His saints and to be marveled among all those having believed, because our testimony among you was believed.

¹ Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run and be glorified, just as it is with you,