2 Thessalonians 2:16 Cross References - Moffatt

¹⁶ And may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father who has loved us and given us eternal encouragement and good hope,

²⁵ But Abraham said, 'Remember, my son, you got all the bliss when you were alive, just as Lazarus got the ills of life; he is in comfort now, and you are in anguish.

¹⁶ For God loved the world so dearly that he gave up his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life, instead of perishing.

¹⁴ but anyone who drinks the water I shall give him will never thirst any more; the water I shall give him will turn into a spring of water welling up to eternal life."

¹ Now before the passover festival Jesus knew the time had come for him to pass from this world to the Father. He had loved his own in this world and he loved them to the end;

¹⁶ and I will ask the Father to give you another Helper to be with you for ever, ¹⁷ even the Spirit of truth: the world cannot receive him, because it neither sees nor knows him, but you know him, because he remains with you and will be within you. ¹⁸ I will not leave you forlorn; I am coming to you.

⁹ As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; remain within my love.

¹³ To lay life down for his friends, man has no greater love than that.

²² So with you. Just now you are in sorrow, but I shall see you again and your heart will rejoice — with a joy that no one can take from you.

¹¹ No, it is by the grace of the Lord Jesus that we believe and are saved, in the same way as they are."

²⁷ As he wished to cross to Achaia, the brothers wrote and urged the disciples there to give him a welcome. And on his arrival he proved of great service to those who by God's grace had believed,

⁷ to all in Rome who are beloved by God, called to be saints, grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

⁴ Now a worker has his wage counted to him as a due, not as a favour;

¹⁶ That is why all turns upon faith; it is to make the promise a matter of favour, to make it secure for all the offspring, not simply for those who are adherents of the Law but also for those who share the faith of Abraham — of Abraham who is the father of us all

² Through him we have got access to this grace where we have our standing, and triumph in the hope of God's glory. ³ Not only so, but we triumph even in our troubles, knowing that trouble produces endurance, ⁴ endurance produces character, and character produces hope — ⁵ a hope which never disappoints us, since God's love floods our hearts through the holy Spirit which has been given to us.

⁸ But God proves his love for us by this, that Christ died for us when we were still sinners.

²⁴ We were saved with this hope in view. Now when an object of hope is seen, there is no further need to hope. Who ever hopes for what he sees already? ²⁵ But if we hope for something that we do not see, we wait for it patiently.

⁵ Well, at the present day there is also a remnant, selected by grace. ⁶ Selected by grace, and therefore not for anything they have done; otherwise grace would cease to be grace.

¹⁷ The slight trouble of the passing hour results in a solid glory past all comparison, ¹⁸ for those of us whose eyes are on the unseen, not on the seen; for the seen is transient, the unseen eternal.

⁴ But, dead in trespasses as we were, God was so rich in mercy that for his great love to us ⁵ he made us live together with Christ (it is by grace you have been saved);

² and lead lives of love, just as Christ loved you and gave himself up for you to be a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her

⁵ due to the hope which is laid up for you in heaven. You heard of this hope originally in the message of the Truth, in that gospel

²³ that is, if you adhere to the foundations and stability of the faith, instead of moving away from the hope you have learned in the gospel, that gospel which has been preached to every creature under heaven, and of which I Paul was made a minister.

³ as we recall your active faith and labour of love and patient hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

¹¹ May our God and Father and our Lord Jesus direct my way to you!

¹ PAUL and Silvanus and Timotheus, to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: ² grace and peace to you from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

¹³ Now we are bound always to thank God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you as the first to be reaped for salvation, by the consecration of your spirit and by faith in the Truth;

² serving in hope of the life eternal which God, who never lies, promised ages ago —

¹³ awaiting the blessed hope of the appearance of the Glory of the great God and of our Saviour Christ Jesus,

⁴ But "the goodness and affection of God our Saviour appeared; ⁵ and he saved us, not for anything we had done but from his own pity for us, by the water that means regeneration and renewal under the holy Spirit ⁶ which he poured upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Saviour, ⁷ that we might be justified by his grace and become heirs to the hope of life eternal."

¹¹ It is my heart's desire that each of you would prove equally keen upon realizing your full hope to the very end, ¹² so that instead of being slack you may imitate those who inherit the promises by their stedfast faith.

¹⁸ so that by these two solid facts (the Promise and the Oath), where it is impossible for God to be false, we refugees might have strong encouragement to seize the hope set before us, ¹⁹ anchoring the soul to it safe and sure, as it enters the inner Presence behind the veil.

¹⁹ (for the Law made nothing perfect), and there is introduced a better Hope, by means of which we can draw near to God.

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy we have been born anew to a life of hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, ⁴ born to an unscathed, inviolate, unfading inheritance; it is kept in heaven for you, ⁵ and the power of God protects you by faith till you do inherit the salvation which is all ready to be revealed at the last hour. ⁶ You will rejoice then, though for the passing moment you may need to suffer various trials; ⁷ that is only to prove your faith is sterling (far more precious than gold which is perishable and yet is tested by fire), and it redounds to your praise and glory and honour at the revelation of Jesus Christ. ⁸ You never knew him, but you love him; for the moment you do not see him, but you believe in him, and you will thrill with an unspeakable and glorious joy

² We are children of God now, beloved; what we are to be is not apparent yet, but we do know that when he appears, we are to be like him — for we are to see him as he is. ³ And everyone who rests this hope on him, purifies himself as he is pure.

¹⁶ We know what love is by this, that He laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for the brotherhood.

⁹ This is how the love of God has appeared for us, by God sending his only Son into the world, so that by him we might live. ¹⁰ Love lies in this, not in our love for him but in his love for us — in the sending of his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

⁵ and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the first-born from the dead, and the prince over the kings of earth; to him who loves us and has loosed us from our sins by shedding his blood —

⁹ Lo, I will make those who belong to that synagogue of Satan, who style themselves Jews (no Jews are they, but liars!) — lo, I will have them come and do homage before your feet and learn that I did love you.

¹⁶ Never again will they hunger, never again will they thirst, never shall the sun strike them, nor any scorching heat;" ¹⁷ for the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, guiding them to fountains of living water; and God will wipe every tear from their eyes."

⁵ Night there shall be none; they need no lamp or sun to shine upon them, for the Lord God will illumine them; and they will reign for ever and ever.