1 Thessalonians 3:3 Cross References - Godbey

³ that no one should be shaken in these tribulations. For you know that for this we are appointed.

¹⁶ Behold, I send you forth like sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. ¹⁷ Beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the sanhedrins, and will beat you in their synagogues; ¹⁸ and they will lead you before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony unto them and the Gentiles.

⁹ Then they will deliver you into tribulation, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations on account of my name, ¹⁰ and then many will be offended; and they will betray one another, and hate one another.

¹² And before all of these things, they will lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you into their synagogues and prisons, led before kings and governors on account of my name.

¹⁹ If you were of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, on this account the world hates you. ²⁰ Remember the word which I spoke to you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they persecuted me, they will persecute you; if they kept my word, they will also keep yours. ²¹ But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know Him that sent me.

² They will put you out of the synagogues: but the hour is coming, that every one killing you may think he is offering service to God.

³³ I have spoken these things to you, in order that you may have peace in me. In the world you have tribulation: but take courage; I have conquered the world.

²⁵ For David says in reference to him, I foresaw my Lord always before me, because he is on my right hand, in order that I may not be moved.

¹⁶ for I will show him how many things it behooves him to suffer for my name's sake.

²² strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to abide in the faith, and it behooves them through many tribulations to enter into the kingdom of God.

²³ except that the Holy Ghost in every city witnesses to me, saying that bonds and tribulations await me. ²⁴ But I consider my life worthy of no consideration to myself, so as to finish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to bear testimony to the gospel of the grace of God.

¹¹ and having come to us, and taking the girdle of Paul, binding his own feet and hands, said, These things says the Holy Ghost, The man whose girdle this is, will the Jews in Jerusalem bind and deliver into the hands of the Gentiles.

¹³ Then Paul responded and said, What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? for I am ready not only to be bound, but to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

³ And not only so, but let us also rejoice in tribulation; knowing that tribulation works out endurance;

³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ³⁶ As has been written, that We are killed all day for thy sake; we are counted as sheep of the slaughter. ³⁷ But in all these we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

⁹ For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles the last, as exposed to death: that we may become a theater to the world, and to angels, and to men.

⁵⁸ So, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

¹³ Therefore I ask that you faint not in my tribulations in your behalf, which is your glory.

²⁸ and not being intimidated in anything by the adversaries: which is to them the manifestation of destruction, but of your salvation, and this is from God;

²³ if you abide in the faith, having been grounded and firm, and not moved from the hope of the gospel which you have heard, having been preached in all creation which is under heaven; whose minister I Paul became.

⁹ because God did not put us forth unto wrath, but unto the obtainment of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

⁴ so that we ourselves rejoice over you in the churches of God, on account of your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations which you endure;

⁸ Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor me his prisoner: but suffer affliction for the sake of the gospel according to the power of God;

¹¹ persecutions, sufferings; such as came to me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra; such persecutions as I endured: and the Lord delivered me out of them all. ¹² But truly all wishing to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

²¹ For unto this you have been called: because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you may follow in his steps:

¹² Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial among you, coming upon you unto your testing: as some strange thing happening to you: ¹³ but as you participate in the sufferings of Christ, rejoice; in order that you may also rejoice in the revelation of his glory, being glad. ¹⁴ If you suffer reproach in the name of Christ, happy are you, because the spirit of the glory and the spirit of God rest on you.

¹⁰ Fear not those things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to cast some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you shall have tribulation ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you a crown of life.

¹³ I know where you dwell, where the throne of Satan is: and you are holding fast my name, and did not deny my faith, in the days when Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwells.